Naming the Dragon saps its power, like singling out an enemy and facing it head on – I see you, I know you, and I'm going to take you on. Fear doesn't like too much attention. When it is free to wander the back roads of your consciousness day and night it is the happiest and does the most harm. But identified, spoken, confronted, and shared, it shrinks in size and you can apply your weapons to it: reason, humor, distraction, and prayer.
