Fear: The Emotion No One Likes to Talk About

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In this episode we’re going to do a deep dive into the fear, why we don’t like to talk about it, what happens when fears stay hidden, six important things to know about fear, and how to begin moving beyond it.

What you’ll discover:

• The problem with not admitting your fears.
• Doubt and indecision are often caused by fear.
• What happens when fears stay hidden?
• Six important things to know about fear.
• Feeling fear is normal.
• Fear is a spectrum from instinctual to normal to irrational.
• Normal and irrational fears are caused by thoughts.
• Fear is often a liar. We should believe everything we think.
• Fear creates a biological response in the body.
• Many of our fears are generated from old conditioning and programming.
• Fear goes by a lot of different names.
• How to bring fear into the light, work with it and move through it.

Episode Questions to Ponder …

• For each area of your life, such as career, relationships, health, finance, etc., ask yourself, “What am I afraid of?”
• How do I distract myself from fear?
• How do I want to feel instead?

 Free Download:

• Naming and Moving Beyond Fear Worksheet

Links mentioned in this episode:

• The Full Catastrophe book
• The Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction 8-week program
• Organic Intelligence
• Dare Response Book
• Oxford dictionary definition of fear 
• Our Brains Negative Bias
• Cleveland Clinic and 60,000 thoughts per day
• Our thoughts are 80% negative and 95% repetitive
• Brooke Castillo and The Life Coach School
• Small Business Failure Rates

Additional Resources

• 20 Questions to Ask Yourself When You Feel Fear
• How Fear Holds Us Back (and How to Conquer It

Gratitude

A huge, heart-felt thank you to my friend April Adams from New Hampshire. I am grateful for your editing support of the episode scripts. Your keen eye, way with words, encouragement, and those funny comments made the journey of producing this podcast so much more fun!