Reflections from a midlife journey
Befriending your fear
Befriending your fear—acknowledging its existence and listening to what it has to say—is far more effective in calming your nervous system and allowing you to move forward with confidence than when you resist it, pretend it doesn’t exist, or push through it. Those strategies only fuel fear and amplify it. Ignoring your fear only succeeds in keeping you stuck where you are.
Unconscious compliance
Unconscious compliance can manifest in any number of ways, all of which keep you stuck in your life. At its core, though, unconscious compliance is always a false story that someone else assigned to you that has run your life because you believed it to be true.