This weekend the whole country celebrates freedom, and a lot of us will spend it proving, pleasing, and performing through a backyard full of people, then wonder why a holiday about freedom leaves us feeling everything except free. If a day off has ever failed to feel like one, this episode is for you.

You will understand why an open calendar and a long weekend do not deliver the freedom you are hoping for. 

You will see the named pattern underneath the urge to prove and please, and why it is more common than you might think. 

And you will leave with one obligation you can set down before the cookout even starts.

Scripture: Galatians 5:1 (NIV)

Research note: On socially prescribed perfectionism, the perception that the people around us expect us to be perfect (Hewitt and Flett, 1991), a pressure researchers have tracked rising over recent decades (Curran and Hill, 2019).

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