Anxious

The experience of conscious or unconscious fear of another feeling. Usually the feeling we are avoiding is sadness or grief of some kind. We refuse to accept the possibility of loss and we stay stuck in fear. Sometimes we do not know why we are feeling anxious. This is because the real issue has been pushed out of awareness in the same effort to avoid feeling. Most of the time the experience we are avoiding is connected to feelings of shame. The irony is the only way we can release the shame is to allow ourselves to look right at it, feel it, grieve it, and decide how we will be different going forward. The only way out (of conscious or unconscious fear) is through. See also Fear