Fear Is Not Your Enemy; It Is the Guard at the Gate by Pablo Giacopelli
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By Pablo Giacopelli
There's something most people don't realize and that is that unprocessed fear is the barrier between you and your wound. You have a wound. Something that happened in your life. Something that shaped how you see yourself, how you move through the world, what you believe about love, safety, and belonging. The wound is real. It lives in you.
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There's something most people don't realize and that is that unprocessed fear is the barrier between you and your wound.
You have a wound. Something that happened in your life. Something that shaped how you see yourself, how you move through the world, what you believe about love, safety, and belonging.
The wound is real. It lives in you.
But you can't reach the wound while fear is still guarding it. You see, fear sits at the entrance like a sentinel. Its job is to protect you from re-experiencing the pain. So every time you get close to the wound, fear floods your system. Your body tenses. Your breath shortens. Your mind spins stories to pull you away.
So, you listen. You back off. You distract. You numb. You try and control. You perform yet the wound stays untouched.
The person who can't stop overworking? Normally their wound is "I'm not enough." But the fear of facing that keeps them in motion. If they stop, they'll feel it. So, they don't stop.
The person who can't commit in relationships? Normally their wound is "I'll be abandoned." But the fear of that rejection is so loud they never let anyone close enough to prove otherwise.
The person who people-pleases until they disappear? Their wound is probably "My needs don't matter." But the fear of being rejected for having needs keeps them silent, small, and serving everyone but themselves.
Fear guards the wound. Yet, until you learn to move through fear, not around it, not over it, but through it, the wound will remain untouchable. Unhealed.
The hard truth is that awareness without action changes nothing.
You can know you have a wound. You can talk about it, journal about it, intellectually understand it. Yet, if you're not willing to feel the fear that lives around it, you will never touch it deeply enough to see it healed.
Consider that healing requires presence and presence requires courage. The courage to feel what you've been running from. To sit with the discomfort. To let the fear move through you without letting it move you away.
On the other side of that fear? That's where the wound is waiting. That's where the healing begins. That's where you discover that the thing you've been so afraid of losing, yourself, was never actually in danger. Just trapped behind the brokenness and pain of the wound.
Pablo Giacopelli
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"God is on my side" I heard someone say the other day as they shared about a dispute they were having with someone else. As I sat there listening to this person give me all the details about why they thought God was on their side and not on the other party's side I began to wonder. So many of us are so quick to say that God must be on our side because of what we have read and others have told us. Clearly when it comes to the way he feels towards us as our father this is indisputable – He always has and always will be on our side. However, can this be also said when we fight and argue with each other about what after all often only amounts to egotistical pettiness?
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I have driven on many third world countries in my time. South Africa is one of these which I happen to often visit. Without fault every time I have been in a car at some stage of my visit, I have had to experience the impact that the regular power cuts have on the traffic signals in this nation. I remember last time I was there when once again while having to endure along with everyone else another blackout, I noticed something that I had never seen before when I came to a non-working traffic light. There is never an accident when the lights are not working whereas when they are working correctly there are plenty. How can this be? Well here is what my heart showed me.
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When we choose to live a life where controlling and watching everything we say and do is king, the impact of our involvement is automatically limited as our heart and mind begin to fight between them for the supremacy of our beings. Consider an archer. If he is free to shoot his arrows anywhere he wants he will have the whole of his talent (heart) available to him. He will have no future results in his mind and will therefore almost always hit whatever he desires. Now take the same archer and ask him to hit the apple above your head and you immediately put him in a space where the potential of being divided is available to him.
