In previous columns, we have focused on how understanding our fears can help us live with them. Is this the only way? This week, we explored healing with Kate Nicholson, the assistant director of student wellness programs and coordinator of …
In this column, we are figuring out how to handle our fears, and today, these authors feel tangled in fear. So, in an effort to untangle ourselves, we are naming our fear.
We started this column hoping to become better at facing our fears: to do the things that scare us—things like interviewing people and then publishing those words for the whole campus to see. But we found through our conversations that …
In this column, we are investigating ways to manage fears. This week, we spoke with Janie Porche, Bowdoin’s Creative Director, about how she “microdoses” fears. But not all Porche’s fears can be microdosed: Porche also shared with us a fear …
Fears. We all have them, some useful, others not. At their best, they give us a healthy dose of caution and promote self reflection. At their worst, they can be daunting, all-consuming and limiting. When we stay quiet about them, …