Dealing With Fear: Resolutions.

DEALING WITH FEAR:

I don't face fear well at all. It's how I am-- and on a spectrum, I am on the far, far, far, other side of the spectrum as a person who DOESN'T face fears.

Facing fears feels really really good afterwards.

Start smaller, if you need to try something that you're scared to try, do something smaller instead.

When I'm anxious, I can think about the people that care about me and build myself UP emotionally with that and my own positive praise.

Building on the last one, try finding spots in the Bible that help with encouragement, anything would be good, and then I can refine it to my favorites. I need some kind of base for encouragement and anime is good for immediate emotional soothing, but it doesn't encourage motivation because it doesn't encourage me personally. It's a creative inspiration, not a personal inspiration.

There was another direct way to successfully encounter fear (and leave that battle uninjured) that I thought of right before I read those cards from mom, what was it? uruurrr try and remember, anyway.

I THOUGHT OF IT!!! XD (Please note in regard to this idea: events outside of your control are different, and that means a different kind of fear.)

You don't have to be afraid of something you don't really have to do. You don't ever HAVE to do anything, and if you feel like you "have to" it's because you CHOSE to make yourself do it, not because you actually have to. When you're afraid, don't feel bad... but remember this.