Transforming Fear

A while ago I was working through Sark's Make Your Creative Dreams Real. She has an exercise where you write out all your fears and then tear them up into tiny pieces and let them go. Instead of getting rid of the pieces, I wanted to do something with them, something transformational. I started to glue them on a page in my journal and this little cutie emerged. Every since she showed up, I feel a bit differently about fear. She's just the scared little part of me that wants to feel safe. And it's okay to want to feel safe, in fact, to want to be safe. It's just that she's so wee and so scared that she can be, well, oversensitive.

So when she reaches out and tugs at my sleeve, I look around. First, I check to see if there really is any danger because sometimes she's right on target. Maybe it is smart to wait, be quiet or go in another direction. But if the coast is clear or if it looks scary but also kind of exciting, I remind her that we're smart and resourceful and can handle the challenges along the way. And the best thing is that the more I show her I'm right about that, the less she needs to pull on my sleeve.