you don’t know everything. So try to welcome input from people who may see your blind spots or inform you of them. Being encouraged to change by someone who knows more about a problem behavior than you do does not make you a lesser person. If you feel, however, that you are being manipulated, by all means tell the person to back off. But if you can identify with the motives or the message, let it move you. If you keep your defenses down, the liberating forces will be able to reach you—before it is too late.
