Reduce unnecessary obligations before calling yourself trapped.

Feeling trapped is sometimes accurate and often the result of obligations that were accepted casually and never reviewed. Commitments accumulate, each one small, until there is no room left, and the constraint feels external when much of it was assembled by you one yes at a time.

Write down everything you are currently obliged to. Find the two you would not accept if offered today, and start unwinding them. The cage is often less solid than it feels.