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When a person intimidates others, they are often afraid themselves.

Fear of another person may reflect childhood trauma or projection of one's own shadow.

Healing starts with admitting fear, feeling it, and moving through it.

You may believe you have to walk on eggshells around certain people. You do not look forward to seeing them. You are probably afraid of them, but you have never called it fear.

A healthy adult refuses to settle for being afraid of anybody. To keep spending time with someone who threatens you, without trying to heal the relationship, is abusing your scared child within. You are saying, “I’ll put you into the bull ring where I know you will be bruised.” To wake up every morning beside someone you fear is the heaviest of all molestations of your inner child. This willingness is insidious psychically,........

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