Sabotaging Sleep to Stay in Control

And next, you sabotage sleep because peace feels too exposed. Here's the uncomfortable

one. Sometimes you stay awake because sleeping means letting go of control.

Sleep is surrender. Sleep is the moment you stop monitoring, stop analyzing, stop scanning,

stop repairing. And if your system has been trained by years of being the sensitive one,

the aware one, the one who notices what others miss, then surrender doesn't feel like rest.

It feels like risk, like taking your hands off the wheel while the road is still moving.

So you stay up, not always with intention. Sometimes it's subtle, you tell yourself

you're just gonna check one more thing, one more message, one more video, one more thought,