A process for meeting fear with tenderness, and allowing something wiser to emerge.

Step 1: Let the fear speak completely

Let your fear speak without judging or needing to change it, ask it what it’s scared of, and what else, what else, what else, what else until there is nothing else… and it says that is all.

Purpose: Radical compassion, witness the fear without interrupting, explaining, or trying to fix.

• EXAMPLE… this how I felt starting my business:

Step 2: Somatically feel and experience the feeling

Process the feeling somatically through breath, movement or sound.

Amplify the fear and then breath, move, shout, through it. If this fear came true, play it out in your mind, does it cause any sensations in your body?

Stay with the fear/pain/sadness/anger/lonliness, pay attention to what you sense, if you can, amplify it even more, then do that, if any tears or laughter come let it, or if you need to move or stretch, do it. Touch it, breath into it. Maybe even do some breath work, I like this one: https://youtu.be/1ncXO8Dj1qU?si=z81dauzxuVTsLdAd

Purpose: To fully feel it and allow it to be expressed somatically.

• EXAMPLE…. notes from after a breathwork sessoin

Step 3: What is it protecting you from?

Ask the fear what it is trying to avoid, what is it protecting you from.

All of our fears are protecting us from something. Wait for the wisdom.

It wants me to do a great job, it wants me to not make mistakes, it’s protecting me from being judged by others, it’s protecting me from failing or not having people sign up tomorrow … because if people don’t sign up, then it means I’m not good at what I do… and if I’m not good at what I do then how can I be paid for my services…

Step 4: What it needs to feel soothed?