Freedom is having more acceptable answers than “I have no choice.”

There is almost always a choice, and often the honest sentence is not that you have none but that you dislike all of them. Freedom is having more than one answer you could actually live with, which is a different thing from having options in the abstract.

When you hear yourself say you have no choice, list what you would need in order to have one. Usually it is savings, a skill, or a conversation. Then work on that rather than on the feeling.