“Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself:
All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is.”
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