This is the angry therapist podcast. My name is John Kim. I'm a licensed therapist

slash live coach and I'm putting self betterment into a shot glass, 10 minutes unpolished.

Fear is the shadow cast by your own hand. So guys we all have core fears right and of

course these fears come from our experiences we are not afraid when we are born. We do have fear to protect us, right? We do have our

fight or flight that comes standard with us as human beings.

But the fears that turn us, turn our lives into prisons,

stem from our experiences as we're growing up.

So as our hearts get shattered as we get bullied you know as

things outside of our control happens natural disasters fires accidents, death, all of this stuff injects fear into us until one day we

lived a very great out life because we are so afraid, right?

But I do think that our fears,

we make them to be a lot bigger than they actually are. So I think it's time to turn the lights on and this is me trying

to do that, at least maybe a flashlight. If I'm not turning the club lights on for you,

maybe it's a flashlight or, you know, a candle maybe.

But here it is.

Think of your fear as dogs trying to protect us, you know, this idea of friending your fears because when we think about our fears, they are monsters, they are this big looming cloud that controls us, you know, this big land or this island that we are so afraid to go

go on and go into exploring.

So one of the reasons is because we're announcing our fears right?

We're instead of looking in exploring and leaning into them, we are acknowledging them,

we are announcing them and whenever we acknowledge and announce we are feeding them and

whatever we feed grows and so our fears keep growing and I think like rumors

fears can become exaggerated stories we tell ourselves.

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