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What Do You Do With Your Fear?

What Do You Do With Your Fear?

So here it is three weeks since the election and it seems like the hits just keep on coming.  Everybody responds to shock and fear differently.  I know folks who are motivated to take action everyday and some folks who are managing anxiety every day.  Some folks are waking up angry every morning and others are withdrawing into the comfort of their homes and loved ones.  Some days I find myself in all the stages of grief: imagining that I will wake up and it will all be a bad dream, blaming everyone for all of it, imagining that someone will come along and save us all, or rationalizing that it won’t really be that bad.  After all, as a nation we have survived predatory Presidents in the past.  And then I remember that not all of us have survived and the fear kicks in once again.  Studies show that prolonged fear and anxiety are not sustainable.  So this begs the question: what do you do with your fear?