Ep 63. Are You Motivated by Fear?

Not Another Anxiety Show

Kelli Walker

Therapy, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Health, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Anxiety, Claireweekes, Counseling, Brenebrown, Research, Meditation, Panicattacks, Science, Selfhelp, Stress

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Join Kelli and Erica as they chat about motivation again (it's a big topic). Kelli and Erica share how their daily life was once motivated entirely by fear - fear of failing, fear of feeling lost, fear of being alone, etc. If you feel like fear is driving too much of your daily life, tune in to hear more about what has helped us shift toward a more sustainable motivator than fear (spoiler alert: it has something to do with values).

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0:00.0	Hey guys. Welcome to Not Another Anxiety Show. I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and joining me today is my co-host from the babybroad.com, Erica, Good morning, Erica. Good morning, Kelly.
0:23.8	We're recording bright and early at the crack of 10 a.m. I mean, this is the earliest we've ever
0:29.8	recorded. And we usually say, we're going to record at 10 o'clock, and then we talk for four hours,
0:34.8	and then it's like, we're making dinner. I guess we should record now.
0:38.6	I guess we should record.
0:39.9	I guess it's time.
0:41.3	I guess it's time.
0:42.9	Yeah, look at us, A plus for the day, getting and going.
0:46.4	A plus.
0:47.7	Yeah.
0:49.0	So last week we talked about aha moments and one that came to mind after recording, of course,
0:56.1	was when I realized that almost everything I did in life was motivated by fear.
1:02.8	Everything was motivated by fear, meaning I exercised out of fear of getting fat.
1:07.4	I went to graduate school out of fear of not knowing what to do once I graduated
1:11.1	from undergrad. And I traveled the world not for the fun of it, but out of fear of not being cool
1:17.3	enough or adventurous enough. And, you know, it's the way I went about my everyday life was
1:24.6	driven by fear. So, you know, no wonder the body crashed a little and then I end up
1:29.3	having more than like five panic attacks a day. It takes a lot of energy, a lot of energy, right?
1:36.2	What about you, Erica? Have you noticed anything, like any places where you live from a place
1:42.4	of fear like, um, FOMO, anything like that? Do you ever find yourself going
1:46.7	out, you know, like with, I know that's one for me too, but like, yeah. Yeah, like, I can't miss out.
1:52.9	So I better go, I better go even though I'm tired and like in my sweatpants. Oh, FOMO is like,
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