Hello All

[C.J]

I don't think you can reason away fear.  You just have to accept that you're afraid.  I suspect whether you do something or not, it will fade with time.  Your struggling against it keeps it alive.

I suppose it's like grief.  It just takes time to reach a peace with your feelings.

Fear can sometimes be a dread of the unknown. Like when walking through a dark forest at night. During the day time, you can see much better, and so the fear is greatly diminished (possibly gone completely). I like the anaology of shedding light into a darkness to illumiate what's really there. That's the strategy I used when Deconverting from Christianity at least. I'm hoping it will work here, too.

Thanks for the reply.