Fear is dragging me down.

In the therapy series on fear, today we pause to reflect on fear itself.
What does your fear look like? What is its character? What does it do to you?
Try to picture it – then write down what it says to you.
And finally, ask yourself: is what it says actually true?
Fear tends to blow things out of proportion, to make them seem much bigger than they really are – and it often makes claims about who you are…

“The little figure wants to move toward the light, but when fear comes, it pulls with such immense force. It drags me down—into the water, into the darkness.”

“And then I start to think that I’ll never make it, that I won’t succeed, that I’m not good enough, that I’ll never be able to protect my children, that I will fail…”

“But in reality, all of those are lies. Lies meant to pull me down even further. And so often—they succeed…
Then I’m no longer strong enough.”

“And the worst part is that it affects my whole family so deeply…”

“But the thoughts aren’t true!”

And with a red crayon, she crosses out every fearful thought and writes in big letters: Lies!