When we use courage, we are literally transforming the negative emotional energy of anxiety into positive energy, called, "confidence."  This form of self-esteem is defined as a feeling of safety in going about navigating risk, change, grief or loss. It is a feeling of fathering, or being fathered. And so courage is how mature adults, "father themselves."

It is a constructive, "win/win" decision to make with one's anxiety, and takes [Read more...] about Courage

Courage as an ego defense shows us something more than just a mature level of development. As you have seen in the Rescue Map of Anxiety we learned about in the emotional attraction of the mammalian brain, it is an instrumental skill for transforming one of the two most prevalent negative emotions - anxiety - into a positive, and is really the only route to self-generating that part of self-esteem [Read more...] about Courage as an Ego Defense