Fear: The Frenemy in Your Head [Flying Higher Moment 016]
Flying Free
Natalie Hoffman
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Fear. It creeps in when you’re trying to sleep, whispers worst-case scenarios while you’re washing dishes, and makes you second-guess yourself every time you try to take a brave step forward.
But here’s the truth: not all fear is bad. In fact, some of it is a God-given superpower... and some of it? More like an overactive smoke alarm when you've just made toast.
In this Flying Higher moment, we break down the two kinds of fear—clean fear that protects you and dirty fear that keeps you stuck. You'll learn:
✨ How fear really works in your brain and body
✨ Why Christian women in abusive relationships often live in chronic fear
✨ The surprising root fear hiding under all the others
✨ How to tell if fear is leading you—or limiting you
✨ Practical ways to reclaim your peace (without gaslighting yourself)
If you’ve ever been afraid of making a mistake, being alone, messing up your kids, or just feeling your feelings—this one’s for you.
Join me for the entire course called The Fear Cure inside Flying Higher by visiting joinflyinghigher.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, beautiful butterfly. It's Natalie. Welcome to another flying higher moment. I have a head cold today, so my voice might sound a little different. But today we're going to talk about everyone's favorite emotion. Drum roll, please. Fear. Yep. That delightful, sweaty palmed, stomach in knots, racing heart feeling that shows up like |
| 0:25.3 | an uninvited guest and then eats all your snacks, wrecks your peace, and tells you you're doomed. |
| 0:32.6 | So grab some metaphorical coffee and let's get into it. |
| 0:36.5 | Recently, something happened in my life that threatened to |
| 0:39.7 | take away everything, my retirement, my business, my home, my car, my ability to provide for the four |
| 0:48.8 | kids I'm still raising on my own, and I could not sleep for more than three to four hours at night for a week. |
| 0:55.9 | My entire body was flooded with adrenaline and cortisol. I couldn't eat. My body felt hot and |
| 1:02.6 | sick like I had a fever. It literally physically hurt everywhere. I was terrified. That word terrified perfectly described the level of fear I felt. |
| 1:16.2 | And because I've done a lot of work around self-awareness in my mind and body, I could see |
| 1:20.3 | what was happening from a bird's eye view even as I was experiencing it in my body. |
| 1:26.0 | Now I'll come back to what happened in a minute, but first, |
| 1:28.4 | let's talk about what fear even is. Fear is basically your brain screaming at you, |
| 1:35.0 | Danger, Will Robinson, whether there is actual danger there or not. Now, sometimes fear is |
| 1:40.8 | telling the truth, like when you're driving on an icy Minnesota road |
| 1:44.5 | where I live in the dead of January and your car is sliding toward a ditch or maybe another car. |
| 1:50.6 | Yes, thank you, fear. |
| 1:52.4 | You may now take the wheel. |
| 1:54.3 | But then there's fear that's not necessarily telling the truth. |
| 1:58.1 | Like when your brain tells you that if you speak up, your child will never talk to you |
| 2:02.2 | again, and you'll end up alone eating expired lean cuisines while your cat judges your life choices. |
| 2:09.2 | That kind of fear? We call that dirty fear. It's totally unhelpful. Smells like regret and stale |
| 2:15.0 | popcorn. But what's at the root of our fear? At the root of all fear, |
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