Lily-livered
My therapist said you should always take responsibility for your own emotions. Otherwise, you might end up blaming other people when you feel bad. It's not other people's fault the past has a way of pulling you out of the present, jump starting your guts. That fight and flight reaction is all you. Notice the fear as it bubbles up from a forgotten place. Notice it, but don't make eye contact. Don't let it get comfortable. It will hurt when your chest folds up over itself, when suddenly everything becomes a threat. But just because you are afraid doesn't mean you are in danger. Your body is telling your brain you are about to die, that's all. *** Before picking up an object, we mentally assess how heavy it is. Similarly, children can gauge the weight of serious topics about which they understand very little. I find myself thinking about death a lot these days. Not in a noble philosophical way, but as a child would. It is not death I am afraid of, but its ima