My friend Ruzica can finally come into my house after 3 years... with her the goal was just for her to acknowledge that she knew her fear was irrational.
Once we got there then it was up to her, and she chose to push herself.
Sometimes that is all you can do.
Bruce
PS: On a perhaps humorous note. I have a friend that is one of the darkest artists I have ever known (and one of the most brilliant) but she has a paralyzing and irrational fear of baby birds. One day a Robin fell out of its nest and was between her and her house, she had been in the studio) and she had to barricade herself in her studio for 8 hours till her husband got home. She came out to try and make her way to the house, but the bird was laying there STARING at her and when it *peeped* at her she had a complete meltdown and passed out.
I send her random pictures of baby birds in the mail all the time... she has wallpapered her studio with them.
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