Finding Opportunities to Feel Intimidated and Insecure: Part 1
How to push your content aside to make room for doubt and discomfort. The ten-hour flight back from London was uneventful, but being in the very back row meant that
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Lessons Learned in Trapeze School: Just Jump!
Detach from dysfunctional points of view and leap into action Your first time flying can be a terrifying experience. They don’t put that in the brochure. Before signing up for
Why Exposure Therapy Isn’t Enough
Technique is overrated. Focus on your point of view. In behavioral therapy, we have a term called habituation, a longstanding principle in the treatment of phobias and other irrational fears. Habituation means
How to Drop Our Crutches and Dive Into Discomfort
Safety crutches reduce fear in the moment but also maintain our fear over time Photo by Brooklyn Morgan on Unsplash We all want security. That’s a given. We want to
How to Reach Higher Goals by Lowering Your Expectations
Olympic gold medalist shows us how to reset our goals in threatening situations Photo by Alex Smith on Unsplash Like so many Americans, I spent the evening of August 18,
Learning From Chris Sharma
What a no-ropes rock climber can teach us about tackling our anxiety. If Chris Sharma is worried about anything at this very moment, it’s not the height at which he’s