From Fear to Flight:Taking Back Your Power to Soar

🤗Dearest friends,🤗

 🌳To elaborate on the most recent dose of positivity; Forgive your younger self for what you did not know. Accept your present self for where you’re at, and believe in your future self.🌳

I felt led to talk about fear and how important it is for us all to realize the profound effect fear has on our abilities, capabilities, expectations, and boundaries.

Failure is a part of life. Do we not fall before we walk?

👠Yet we often time let fear inhibit us from taking the next steps. 👠

The next steps toward a new career, relationship, adventure investment, commitment, or journey. 🛣️

As a child, I lived in a place of fear (irrational fear I must add … like I wouldn’t get on the steamboat OR monorail, the only two ways into Epcot) because I FEARED both means of transportation.  

I believed wholeheartedly if I boarded either or, I would perish. Had I ever been in a boating accident? No. Or fallen out of a subway in the sky? No. Could either potentially happen? Sure, but what really were the odds?

After becoming a mother, I knew without a doubt that I did not want to project my irrational fears onto my child (especially since his father is WAY more adventurous than I am). Although, my husband did always appreciate the quickness of the single rider liners.

🚩I am a firm believer that a healthy dose of fear, or even anxiety is beneficial to us. It stops us from doing or participating in certain activities that do not serve us well or even worse could bring us harm. 🚩

However, when that fear and anxiety affect our daily lives, our decision-making, our ability to rationalize and proceed accordingly, it becomes a burden. It also becomes hindering and blinding leaving us powerless and paralyzed by its presence.

Fear does this when we give it authority. 

Yet when we step into that space of reclaiming our authority over fear, we take back our power. 🔌💡💪

We cannot commit to ourselves or others if we fear the response they may have to our values, our expectations, or our boundaries.

👥 In all fairness, we too need to be open, honest, and transparent with these known truths about ourselves. 👥

I am fully aware and can recognize that a speeding, topsy, turvy roller coaster will not bring me joy or enhance my well-being in any way. Reading in a train, plane, or automobile makes me nauseous with vertigo.

 🌞✈️ However, when traveling abroad, and given the opportunity to zip-line through the canopies of the Tikal Jungle I had a decision to make. Weigh the risks versus benefits, rationalize, respond, and minimize the authority I was giving fear in making my final decision. 🌳🌈

🌸🌳 Friends, I soared!!! I flew over and through the luscious canopy where the wild toucans, white-nosed catimundis, howlers and spider monkeys graced us with their presence. 🐵⛰️🌳

I did this after years of practicing rationalizing both internal and external fear. 

🗝️ My go-to practice, my mantra if you will is simple and is this 🗝️-

F. E. A. R.

False 

Evidence 

Appearing 

Real 

At times, although I may look as cool, calm, and collected as a duck floating peacefully on the surface of a pristine lake, my irrational fear-filled thoughts are flailing as sporadically as those precious webbed feet below the surface. 🦆😄  Yet, as I take time to focus on the facts, weigh the pros and cons, and assess the REAL risks with regard to proceeding (or not) it is then and only then that I commit or retreat. 

Although life decisions aren’t necessarily equivocal to committing to strapping into the Screaming Eagle, the feelings of paralyzing fear can be just as scary.😱

Applying for a promotion, changing career paths, exiting a toxic relationship, and establishing boundaries in an unfavorable situation at home, work, or elsewhere can and does elicit those same unsettling feelings of fear and anxiety.

Fearing the action of change, the outcome of change, or even the rejection of change leaves us stagnant and persistently entangled in the web of lies and half-truths fear traps us in. 🕸️⏰🕸️

Sure, there may be risks. In fact, we may not succeed or be given the outcome we sought … this time. 

Yet we press forward. 

Having shed our shackles of fear, our stride is purposeful. Our steps are lighter yet more directed, and our footing more secure. 👞 👞 👞

🚪So secure in fact that we are willing to take more paths less traveled. Eager to embark on another journey where our truths align with the tour guide, other participants, passerbys, or perhaps we become the guide ourselves. 🚪

 💖 💡 🛣️ SO, in a nutshell … stop allowing False Evidence Appearing Real (F.E.A.R.) authority over you. Practice recognizing internal and external narratives that elicit crippling power over you. Take back your power and soar into the light of new adventures with clarity, mindfulness, and purpose! Be open to the magic of possibilities, especially when fear is the only thing holding you back. 🔦 🚪 🌸