A Genie in a Lamp 🪔 · The Clarity Collective

A Genie in a Lamp 🪔

Fear doesn’t wait for an invitation.

It doesn’t appear with a puff of smoke, ready to grant wishes or bargain for your attention.

It’s wilder than that.

Fear is a shapeshifter, docile one moment, ferocious the next. It can ambush you without warning, slipping in through an old memory, a familiar ache, or a story you didn’t realize you were still carrying.

Relentless! Accidental! It has a mind of its own.

❤️ Here’s the part we forget:

Fear isn’t here to punish you.

And it’s definitely not here to grant your worst-case scenarios.

It’s not a genie in a lamp.

📩 It’s a messenger.

A signal that something in you is stirring, shifting, waking up.

A reminder that you’re alive, that you’re growing, that you’re brushing up against the edges of what matters.

When we stop treating fear like a threat and start meeting it with curiosity, we get to choose how we respond, with breath, with presence, with awareness.

When fear shows up in its unpredictable form, what helps you stay rooted instead of swept away?

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