09/22/2025
🌍 Survival Mode as a Tool of Control
Have you noticed how often we are bombarded with images of violence, fear, and crisis? It feels like every day, there’s another breaking story, another “us versus them” narrative, another reason to panic.
This constant flood of fear keeps people stuck in survival mode, and it is precisely in this state that clarity, creativity, and hope are hardest to find. When we’re in that state, we react instead of respond, we panic instead of plan, and we make decisions rooted in fear instead of vision.
And that’s the danger. Because keeping people in survival mode is a means of control. A fearful community is easier to manipulate than an empowered one.
The challenge for all of us is to recognize when fear is being used against us, and to choose differently. To pause, to breathe, and to remind ourselves: we were not created just to survive, but to thrive.
✨ Thriving requires courage. It requires refusing to be defined by fear. It requires seeing beyond the crisis of the day and imagining the possibility of tomorrow.