Living in Fear Can be Addictive

 

We can be driven by fear. In childhood, we may have learned to wait for the next blow. 

The blows didn't have to be physical. They could be emotional or even from neglect. 

We became fear-based adults.  Our fixation on these fears created cycles of inaction. 

HOW DO YOU STOP ADDICTIVE FEAR CYCLES?

You choose to act. Viktor Frankl described when to act:

Victor Bezrukov, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Between stimulus and response there is a space.

In that space is our power to choose our response.

In our response lies our growth and our freedom.