Lead more, or toprope but ask your belayer to keep a bit more slack once you're up a bit on the wall
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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I dont think you ever really overcome that fear. It is like a muscle you have to continuously train.
Exposure therapy. The more falls you take, the less anxiety you'll feel when facing the next fall.
Unfortunately, the fear comes back over time if you don't take falls, so you need to keep doing it. As they say, if you're not falling, you're not trying hard enough.
The more falls you take, the less anxiety you’ll feel when facing the next fall.
I have experienced the opposite. The longer I've been leading, the more afraid of falling I become.