Most fear (excepting certain so-called visceral fears, like vertigo, or fear of actual physical pain) is fear of how I will feel emotionally if something happens, or the recurrence of a past feeling.
What I forget is that I’m actually the creator of my emotional feelings, past, present, and future: they do not happen to me; I make them with the thoughts that I have. Even puny little me is more powerful than my feelings.
My job, today, is to show them who is boss, and to show them who my Boss is, who is bigger than (having created) me, who is bigger than (having created) my emotions.
My emotions are very noisy mice. Noisy. But mice. Inconvenient, and sometimes requiring me to ‘give it a minute’, but nothing, themselves, to be frightened of.