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Overcoming Fear and learning to live a courageous life

29/7/2015

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The other day I came across a link in the Huffingtonpost, I was so excited. So many of the points in the article about conquering fear, are strategies that I put in one of my stories,  Raymund and the Fear Monster. How did I know? I'm not a psychologist, a counsellor or an authority of overcoming fear.

I am is someone who has had first hand experience of fear, and overcoming them.

I had the typical childhood fears. I was absolutely certain that there were monsters under my bed. I didn't tell my parents. For years my mother wondered why I slept right in the middle of the bed. I mean, that was the only spot that the monsters hands could not get me. 


I was afraid of the dark and the things in the dark. I was afraid of the monster that lived in the toilet pipes. I could him rattle and bang around in there. I was always waiting for him to grab my butt. (Though, living in Queensland, it would have been a big green frog that would have touched my butt). 

I grew up in a household with an alcoholic and abusive father, where everyday I lived in fear. I was kicked out of home at sixteen and lived on the streets. Fear kept me alive and I survived. In the past few years, living with a chronic illness has it's own unique set of fears that I must face daily. 


To quote Aristotle, "Courage is the first of human virtues because it makes all others possible." 

So what do I do? 
  1. I acknowledge that I am afraid and what I am afraid of. 
  2. I take deep breaths and try to focus on what I can do. 
  3. I endeavour to manage my stress and to exercise. 
  4. I practice courageous acts: I do things that I don't think I can (eg. I went to the Philippines on a Mission Trip with my church while in the middle of our winter. I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to walk much, I was afraid as it was my first time overseas and my daughter and I went a day early). 
  5. I make myself face the things that I am afraid of, over and over again. 
  6. I focus on the good things, the things that give me hope, meaning and purpose. 
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Children can do these things also to overcome their fears, one step at a time. Then they too, can live a courageous life, as can you.
 

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    I share what it is like living with a chronic illness, Fibromyalgia, and learning to live in the moment and enjoy my life.

    There are writing tips from my Writers' Group, Dribbles and Scribbles,  as well as short stories that my friends and I have written.

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