Thank you Sheila :) I don't have it in the frame, but the bear had just devoured a fat salmon and was heading into the stream for another one. It was magnificent to watch (from behind a fence!) I wrote this piece because I needed to revisit the laundry list of fears to see my progress, to see where I was stuck, and just in case anyone else was stuck.
Very helpful and well said. Our grand-daughter with her grandpa had a momma bear and two cubs walk across the footpath they were on in N Michigan forest last summer. She was asked if she was scared and she said she wasn't until her grandpa squeezed her hard and whispered quiet. Thankfully the bear looked at them and chose to continuing across the path. We've downplayed the event hoping at age 9, the memory may fade even though she reminded me one of her favorite childhood book, was Never Bug a Bear. Thanks for your thorough list of managing fears. I'm so reminded even at my age, following a brain bleed, the neurology team, said there is no cure, no pill for what you have. The solution is to keep active, keep your blood pressure normal, maintain your healthy habits, and manage your fears of recurrence. I love docs who prescribe this as the solution when called for.
Thanks for reading, Deb! I recall Rick telling us that story and how afraid I was for them. I will have to look for "Never Bug a Bear." You are right, the fears I wrote about in the context of creating are absolutely applicable to broader areas of life. Once we identify the root and what the purpose of the fear is (always to protect us from something), we can start to untangle it and manage it so it has less dominance over our life. Easy to say, of course, because these fears don't act in isolation.
Alice, this is spectacular. May I use it as a guest post on the Imaginative Storm blog?
I agree - not doing what we think we want to do pretty much always boils down to fear. Your lists are incredibly useful in that they make us think: which of these fears do I have? Zebith wrote a guest post some time ago (I asked her to, after a Saturday after-chat) on the paradox of fearing both failure and success.
I have never encountered a bear in nature. What an amazing picture of the bear eyeing the eagle!
So much fear being spread in our world today. Your list for writers gives thoughtful pause.
Thanks Alice
Thank you Sheila :) I don't have it in the frame, but the bear had just devoured a fat salmon and was heading into the stream for another one. It was magnificent to watch (from behind a fence!) I wrote this piece because I needed to revisit the laundry list of fears to see my progress, to see where I was stuck, and just in case anyone else was stuck.
Very helpful and well said. Our grand-daughter with her grandpa had a momma bear and two cubs walk across the footpath they were on in N Michigan forest last summer. She was asked if she was scared and she said she wasn't until her grandpa squeezed her hard and whispered quiet. Thankfully the bear looked at them and chose to continuing across the path. We've downplayed the event hoping at age 9, the memory may fade even though she reminded me one of her favorite childhood book, was Never Bug a Bear. Thanks for your thorough list of managing fears. I'm so reminded even at my age, following a brain bleed, the neurology team, said there is no cure, no pill for what you have. The solution is to keep active, keep your blood pressure normal, maintain your healthy habits, and manage your fears of recurrence. I love docs who prescribe this as the solution when called for.
Thanks for reading, Deb! I recall Rick telling us that story and how afraid I was for them. I will have to look for "Never Bug a Bear." You are right, the fears I wrote about in the context of creating are absolutely applicable to broader areas of life. Once we identify the root and what the purpose of the fear is (always to protect us from something), we can start to untangle it and manage it so it has less dominance over our life. Easy to say, of course, because these fears don't act in isolation.
Alice, this is spectacular. May I use it as a guest post on the Imaginative Storm blog?
I agree - not doing what we think we want to do pretty much always boils down to fear. Your lists are incredibly useful in that they make us think: which of these fears do I have? Zebith wrote a guest post some time ago (I asked her to, after a Saturday after-chat) on the paradox of fearing both failure and success.
Yes of course you can use it. I need to look up Zebith’s post.
thanks!