This is Hello Freedom and I'm your host Terry Cole.

For almost two decades I've been a licensed psychotherapist and transformation coach, and on this show I will bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology, inspiring expert interviews, and my own insights and observations

from my time on the front lines of the fascinating worlds

of entertainment, impairment, and mental health.

Now let's get going with today's episode. Well hello and welcome to Hello Freedom I'm your host Terry Kone.

As always I'm happy that you guys are taking a little bit of time out of your week out of your day to spend it with me

I want to talk about fear today

I want to get really real about how much fear may still be really running your life.

As you guys know, or maybe you don't know, but a lot of my career I've spent talking about fear.

That's what my TED Talk is about.

I've had my own experiences,

which I called my getting my PhD in fear

or my year of fear. And it was a year in my life when many things happened in a

row that were all absolutely terrifying from my father dropping dead to me getting

diagnosed with cancer twice to my husband and

I who was only my boyfriend at the time being held up a gunpoint. Those things

happening in a row completely changed my relationship to fear.

So where I used to be, in my own mind, a fearless badass prior to that year,

and when a few of those things happened, I was still operating on that same way of sort of,

it's fine, stuffing down the fear, being counterphobic, that's really how I handled most things,

was just doing anything that I was afraid of because I hated being afraid so much.

But then it got to a point, the tipping point in that year of fear for me

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