Healing Fear
To heal fear, I suggest starting with healing the shame we may feel for being fearful. Feeling fear and shame is too much. We should tackle only one at a time! Without shame, confronting our fears will be much easier. We may need to approach the scary stuff one little step at a time. We may need a lot of time. We’ll be able to make progress very slowly without feeling horrible about ourselves. We won’t try to bully ourselves into throwing ourselves at the deep end and fail for not being prepared enough. We’ll be kind to ourselves. We may even laugh! It’s true that in some cases, all that's needed is to muster some courage, push ourselves and move forward. Sometimes, the fear is not so deep, so immense and so intense that it can’t be overcome this way. Sometimes, what we have to confront is not that unknown, we are not that unprepared, we had opportunities to build up our confidence before… We can push forward and win! However, in other cases, let’s be humble, it’s just too muc