When we feel afraid and overwhelmed in the face of not knowing how to navigate a situation, when anxiety and the need to flee from potential failure arise, rather than avoiding the experience and unleashing a flurry of self-attacks, we need to learn a new response. We need to turn toward our fear, to practice staying with it, feeling our anxiety, a

The fear in this case is that if we are allowed and encouraged to be who we really are, that who we are will not be enough.