Really taking the time to befriend my fears leaves me feeling lighter and filled with hope. In the past I would try to conquer them or fight against them.
I've been thinking about how I listened to my anxiety but I never took it a step further. Back when I was in grad school I learned to befriend my anxiety to listen and talk to it, but I never went to the fear that caused the anxiety, well, maybe I did, as with needing to write papers and such. Now that I have taken it a step further and am now talking to the fear directly it feels like I have come to some deeper understanding and lends new meaning to the phrase: Know thy self
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