By Connie H Deutsch

Fear is one of the most overwhelming, paralyzing emotions a person could ever have. We’re not talking about the type of fear we experience in a crisis where life and limb are in danger, the “fight or flight” type of fear; we’re talking about the day in, day out fears that prevent us from living a full life and are the greatest deterrent to personal freedom.

We’re all familiar with the typical kinds of fear: fear of failure, fear of success, fear of rejection, fear of abandonment, etc., but then there are the subtle kinds that are often masked to make them unrecognizable for what they are. For example, take the person who is always making “nicey, nicey” even when his anger has reached the boiling point. More often than not, that person is afraid that if he says what he’s really thinking and feeling, the other person will retaliate by spewing the same kind of vitriol. He knows that if he doesn’t want to hear anything unflattering about himself, he’d better always make “nicey, nicey.” Read More→