Day 3485: What’s the name of this post?

Every once in a while, I look at the images I want to share for the day, can’t decide what to name the blog post, and ask my readers for help.

I also have some trouble asking for help, so I sometimes say “no pressure” when I‘m doing that.

What’s the name of this post? (No pressure.)

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What’s the name of this post? It could be

• “No Pressure”
• “Pressure”
• “Light and Dark”
• “Making the Darkness Conscious”
• “Fears”
• “National Love is Kind Day”
• Anything you suggest, below.

Here are some pressure songs people on Twitter posted in response to my asking this question:

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What’s the name of this post? Another possibility is “Gratitude.”

Day 3225: What scares you?

What scares you, on this day before Halloween, 2021?

What scares you in today’s images?

Enemies scare me and, honestly, so does candy corn.

What scares me is how scared I can become about so many things. What helps is knowing I have survived so many things that scare me.

When I searched YouTube for “what scares you?” I found What Scares Me That Doesn’t Scare You.

I hope leaving a comment doesn’t scare you.

I am grateful for everything that doesn’t scare me, including YOU.

Day 2608: Fun with Phobias, Part 5

I have no phobias about sharing these links for my previous “Fun with Phobias” posts:

Day 416: Fun with Phobias

Day 417: Fun with Phobias Part II

Day 496: Fun with Phobias (Part III*)

Day 1594: Fun with Phobias, Part 4

Yesterday, somebody expressed surprise about other people’s fears and phobias being different from theirs.  Because I don’t have Googlephobia, I searched for a list of phobias and took this photo:

Because I don’t have Facetime-o-phobia, later in the day I communicated with somebody who had Trypanophobia when he was young:

It’s a good thing that my son Aaron doesn’t have Kosmemophobia (fear of jewelry) because his mother’s earrings are HUGE.

I  don’t have pun-o-phobia, as you can see in this subsequent communication between Aaron and me:

Do you see any phobias in my other photos from yesterday?

 

When I was a kid, I had a fear of the dark.  My Phone, which keeps taking pictures like that last one,  seems to have no Achluphobia, Nyctophobia, or whatever you want to call it.

Even though Politocophobia is a real thing,  here’s a limerick about one of the  2020 Democratic candidates for President:

My choice at this moment is Pete
And it’s not only because he is neat.
At Harvard, the Navy, South Bend
He had many an appreciative friend,
Plus his deep thoughts won’t fit in a tweet.

Here’s “The Phobia Song” by Pushing Daisy.

Fear of comments is a thing,  but consider leaving one anyway.

Do you have fear of gratitude?  I hope not.

 

 

Day 2382: Big Fear

Here and now, what’s your big fear?

Take a moment.

Breathe, close your eyes, and allow your mind, body, AND soul  to respond to that question.

Again,  here and now, what’s your big fear?

Does your big fear have to do with …

• money?
• people’s responses to you?
• being judged?
• the unknown?
• changes you’ve chosen?
• changes you have not chosen?
• stagnation?
• being trapped?
• betrayal?
• abandonment?
• authority figures?
• being misunderstood?
• being manipulated?
• being ignored?
• time running out?
• being forgotten?
• forgetting things?
• feeling too much?
• feeling too little?
• knowing too much?
• knowing too little?
• having too much?
• having too little?
• loss?
• anger?
• guilt?
• shame?
• being hurt?
• hurting others?
• turning out just like so-and-so?
• family?
• strangers?
• people?
• animals?
• bugs?
• not knowing what to say?
• saying the wrong thing?
• not being seen?
• being seen?
• your behaviors?
• other people’s behaviors?
• order?
• chaos?
• limitations?
• failing?
• succeeding?
• heights?
• depths?
• violence?
• the past?
• the future?
• aging?
• pain?
• death?
• fear itself?

Do you see big fear in my other big photographs from yesterday?

 

 

 

What helps you deal with big fear?

• Naming it?
• Sharing it?
• Calculating the possibility that it will come true?
• Accepting it?
• Letting it go?
• Self care?

When I search YouTube for “big fear” I find this …

… this …

… and this:

 

Fear not! All comments about big fear are welcome, below.

Big thanks to all who help me create this big blog and all who read it (including YOU).

 

Day 1572: What’s the worst that could happen?

What’s the worst that could happen?

That’s something I ask my patients, to invite them to face their fears and to consider how likely it is that those fears will come true.

What’s the worst that could happen to you, here and now?

Is the worst that could happen to you related to

• money?
• harm coming to somebody you love?
• work?
• technology?
• people in power?
• illness?
• legal issues?
• family?
• friends?
• strangers?
• time?
• transportation?
• the weather?
• sports?
• food?
• expectations?
• language?
• the media?
• the internet?
• local politics?
• national politics?
• global politics?
• natural disasters?
• man-made disasters?
• fire?
• water?
• change?
• taking risks?
• going outside?
• staying inside?
• accidents?
• making mistakes?
• misunderstandings?
• malice?
• something else?

What’s the worst that could happen, at this point, in this post? Would it  be my defining “catastrophizing” AGAIN?

Catastrophizing.
This is a particularly extreme and painful form of fortune telling, where we project a situation into a disaster or the worst-case scenario. You might think catastrophizing helps you prepare and protect yourself, but it usually causes needless anxiety and worry.

Would the worst that could happen in this post be seemingly random pictures?

I hope that the worst that could happen to my son today will be his mother posting a picture of him on her blog.

Here’s  “The Worst that Could Happen” music from YouTube:

 

The worst that could happen, right now, would be my forgetting to thank all who helped me create today’s post and — of course! — YOU.