Hey everybody, Michael Gunger here. Welcome to the liturgist podcast. This week is

Thanksgiving, so we don't have a full episode this week. But we thought we'd

give you something anyway. This is a meditation actually that we recorded for

our patrons. Patrons are the people who make this show possible. If you're

interested in being a patron, you can go to the liturgist.com and you'll find a

link there to join and there's bonus podcasts, meditations, and all sorts of

stuff that you can get as a patron. But this is one of the weekly meditations

that we record. One of my favorites that's been done in a while was done by my

partner, Elisa. And it's a beautiful meditation about fear and it's called

you are safe. So I hope you enjoy it. All the love. Happy Thanksgiving.

Hi liturgists, Elisa here. It is a privilege to do this meditation with you

today. A little while back, a combination of body meditations and therapy

began excavating years of programming and trauma for me. And like a floodgate

opening, fear came barreling out. I had never thought of myself as a fearful

person, but now that I was trying to move forward, I could clearly see how fear

navigated so many of my steps. Sometimes it felt like too much. I wanted to quit.

All the reasons why I should be afraid were relentless, was spring to me.

Every time I took a step in the direction of my own heart. Sometimes fear had a

specific face, but other times I noticed all that was happening was fear of the

fear of the fear. So I began to sit with fear. I let it sit in front of me and see

it for what it is. In the sitting, its face began to change. Not with force,

but with just noticing, seeing it for what it was.

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