Traumatic Experiences Community Daily Check-in Thursday 27th July 2017
Grreetings to you all!
Hoping that the dawn of a new day brings fresh hope with it. And most all that you have a TON of Courage there with you.. you're going to need it!. As Mark Twain said "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
Recently when an old fear arose in a situation, I thought surely after all these years, it wouldn't affect me like this.It was once a paralysing fear that stopped any action at all... but gradually inch by inch it had been confronted and seemingly overcome. But it was there again, So once again find the resources,find the courage,,and face in to it. Only then was it possible to act in the way that a capable adult would. Got me thinking about Courage.. the courage it takes every day, the courage to seek for help, the courage to remember,the courage to look fear in the face,the courage to go on in confronting PTSD.
As has been written : "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes it is the little voice at the end of the day that says, 'i'll try again tomorrow."
Inviting you to share something about courage,, the courage you know in your own experience, the courage you have witnessed in others., the courage you wish you had. Or about your day, how is it going, how could we support you? Or just pop in to say Hi! This is your space and a safe place. Be encouraged.. you have more courage than you may ever know.
Great post about courage! I know a little boy who has so much courage... He has pretty extreme cancer and has been at deaths door a lot since his diagnosis. But he has never been afraid and we have tried to protect him from the truth but he knows. And he has so much courage that he'll look straight at deaths door and won't cower from it. Even the times that I try to hide from the truth he never does and he always tells me there's a chance he will die and he's only 6 years old. My little dolphin has way much more courage than me! And I'm very, very proud of him :) <3 🐬
@AriannaPink
And you should be proud of him too.
@MKJart
I am more than you could ever imagine :)
Happy Friday. I have to leave the house today (for a doctor's appointment no less, followed by groceries). Feeling the by-now familiar terror at the prospect of having to venture outside my sanctuary to tell my GP that I haven't been doing so well, while I worry about what's happening at home the entire time that I'm out (in public, exposed and vulnerable) and try my best not to have a meltdown from the sensory overload.
Courage. Eugh. I'm trying not to
...tremble. Is this what "mastering" fear feels like? Because I feel like it's running things at the moment.
Anyhow I still have at least an hour before I have to get ready. Hopefully I can find a way to rein it in.
@melliotm
And you did .. you made it!
