she’s got real estate in my head. In fact, I’ve granted her full citizenship, if only because this makes her easier to name and thus to decode. Rather than pretending she doesn’t exist or constantly trying to defeat her, I’ve gotten to know my fearful mind as well as she knows me. And this alone has loosened her hold and lessened her stealth. I’m not so easily ambushed when the jolts arrive. To me, my fearful mind is noisy but generally ineffectual—more thunder than lightning—and that’s taken the teeth right out of her agenda.
