Welcome to the tailored life podcast, the one and only fitness and nutrition

podcast that goes way beyond just training and nutrition.

I'm your host, Cody McBroom, and today I am going to talk to you about fear.

So yes, once again, excuse me, once again, we are going way beyond just training and nutrition. And today, the reason I want to talk about fear is because this is actually an impromptu episode because I just finished recording an episode and I read something this morning that man it hit home with where

I'm at right now in life feelings I've had in the past and something I talk to clients about

all the time and it's actually a an analogy or an abbreviation it's an acronym that was used

and I believe what they said was AAA, so A, A, the alcohol anonymous.

So people who go through these classes to work on becoming sober, drug abuse, alcohol addiction, stuff like that.

They use this, and in this analogy, I'm going to read it right now off my phone because I have it written down.

It's fear, false evidence appearing real.

Fear. False evidence appearing real. And I absolutely love that because I think that a lot of us go

through this all the time. A lot of us have fear of taking action. A lot of us have fear of putting

ourselves out there. A lot of us have fear of chasing our goals and our outcomes and what we believe in and even

sometimes being ourselves, right?

Well, this quite literally lays it out exactly how it is 90% of the time.

And I say 90% of the time because there's a reason fear exists.

And I actually have this pulled up right now.

And I, you know, I always like to have some kind of science behind what we're talking about.

But I often tell people that anxiety and excitement are very, very similar.

And we're going to use fear as a close brother or sister to anxiety because it is very similar to that as well.

Now, fear obviously can come in multiple forms.

There is quite literal fear of your life. If you are in a

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