The Freedom You Actually Need This Summer (YNBS 111)

This weekend the whole country celebrates freedom, and a lot of us will spend it proving, pleasing, and performing our way through the holiday. If a day off has ever failed to feel like one, this episode is about the freedom an open calendar cannot hand you. In this episode: -Why an open calendar and a long weekend do not deliver the freedom you are hoping for -The named pattern psychologists found underneath the urge to prove and please -What one word in Galatians 5:1 reveals about freedom you already have -One obligation worth setting down before the weekend begins Scripture: Galatians 5:1 (NIV) Research note: Socially prescribed perfectionism, the perception that others expect us to be perfect (Hewitt and Flett, 1991). A later meta-analysis found this pressure has risen over recent decades, measured in young adults (Curran and Hill, 2019).