Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Gross podcast.

Today I'm coming at you with a solo episode, and I'm going to dive deep into the subject of

commitment. Now, not just commitment in the sense of committed romantic relationships,

but actually the fear of commitment and not just the fear of commitment from other people,

like being in relationship with people who are afraid of commitment, but also us,

ourselves, and our fear of commitment.

Where this comes from, and we're going to focus on a story I'm going to share about my own life

that looks at how a fear of commitment

can pathologize, but also looking at taking this subject that we're going to explore and

extrapolating into every area of your life. Your fear to commit to a dream, to a possibility,

to a relationship, to your purpose, to a goal.

All of these are the exact same process, actually.

And that's why I think being able to understand what lives at the basis of our fears of commitment

can allow us to become more committed people, more disciplined, more discerning.

It can allow us to move forward and create things we never thought were possible, but always desired.

So if there's any part of you that sabotages, that chooses people who are afraid of commitment,

find yourself keeping, that you keep being

gravitated towards that, that you yourself are running from people would like to have a relationship

with or you just can't label why you can't be with them.

I want to get into that.

Because I think if we look at this from a psychological level, yes, there's a fear that lives

at the basis of not being able to commit to things. But if we look at this from a spiritual

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