Fear destroys
In the therapy series on anxiety, we are focusing on fear today.
What does your fear look like? What is its character? What does it do to you?
Create an image of it – then write down what it says to you.
And as a final step: is what it says even true? Fear tends to inflate everything, make it much bigger than it really is, and also to make claims about who you are…
“Fear is incredibly big. I drew houses like a city behind it to show how big the fear is. Everywhere it goes, it destroys what it encounters.”
“Its shape is also not fixed. It takes on different forms, which I depicted by drawing another border around it with the chalk held flat.”
“The city is like my home. The fear breaks everything…”
“Fear says it has everything under control, that it dictates, that it is bigger than everything… But in the meantime, it breaks everything.”
“Where am I still, when it stomps around?”
And that’s exactly what often happens with fear. It takes over everything, and you fade into the background or even disappear completely. This exercise is a big step to realize what fear does to you and what it says to you. It gives you the chance to identify and recognize it in your life. It is absolutely not easy!
But only when you understand what it does and what it says can you turn that around and slowly reclaim control of your life. A process with many small steps in the safety of the therapy group.
