How to Manage Fear and Anxiety for Better Mental Health: Expert Insights

Emotional Badass

Nikki Eisenhauer

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In this episode we explore fear from a new perspective, rethink and reframe our relationship with fear, recommend Gavin DeBecker's 'Gift of Fear' Book, and dive deeply, and simply. Learn how to manage fear and anxiety while focusing on mental health in our latest discussion. Understand the roots of fear, why it exists, and its evolutionary role. Dive into how modern stressors can lead to chronic fear and PTSD, impacting mental health. We explore how to make peace with fear and reduce anxiety, offering strategies to confront and overcome fear's grip on your life. Discover the tools needed to navigate fear and anxiety, so you can achieve personal growth and better mental health. Unlock insights to transform fear from an overwhelming obstacle into a valuable resource for intuition and self-protection. If you are interested in supporting us even more than a 5-star review, you can find Emotional Badass on Patreon where you will get bonus content and different opportunities to work with Nikki in group format https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass Resources: Download the free Morning Routine PDF to learn our techniques to help conquer your day! https://www.emotionalbadass.com/morning-routine Community & Exclusive Bonus Episodes & Video: https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass 30 Days to Peace Course: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/peace CODE: BADASS for 30% Off Brain.FM: CODE: Emotionalbadass for 20% off and a free month Join our newsletter for weekly wellness emails where we share mental health tips, announcements, discount codes, and highlight past episodes: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/newsletter Check out our Guided Meditations narrated by Nikki available for sale: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/store/meditations Follow us on Social Media: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/emotionalbadass IG: https://www.instagram.com/emotional.badass FB: https://www.facebook.com/emotionalbadass TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@emotionalbadass Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/emotionalbadass Thank you for supporting this show by supporting our sponsors: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/sponsors Advertising: Please contact sales@advertisecast.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Emotional Badass, where Moxie meets Mindful. Oh, I am Nicky Eisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist and today I want to talk about fear.
0:32.0	Last episode we talked about Today I want to talk about fear.
0:32.6	Last episode we talked about introversion,
0:35.8	high sensitivity, being an empath.
0:39.2	So I want to talk naturally about fear now.
0:42.0	What is fear? What is it? Do you ever think about it? actually about
0:45.0	what is fear? Like, why do you ever think about like what is it? Like why do we feel it?
0:48.0	One of my favorite books in the world is called The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker his last name is two words it's like
0:57.4	D e space Becker B e c ker the gift of fear with Gavin de Becker.
1:03.7	And so I want you to consider that instead of fear
1:06.8	being this awful thing that we're not supposed to feel,
1:10.8	that there is a beautiful gift available to us in fear.
1:15.0	Think about it guys, we're animals, you know, we like to think of ourselves as human,
1:20.0	as if we're very separate, above, different than animals in a lot of ways.
1:24.3	We're not for as high consciousness as we are.
1:27.4	We're still animals.
1:29.7	That fear response that we have is a response that has developed, it has evolved in us to be a huge asset.
1:38.0	If I'm walking towards my car in a dark alley at night and I hear footsteps. Fear is not there to terrify me and that's it. Fear is there to make my blood pump and get faster. It's to heighten my senses so that I can either fight
1:58.3	and another animal off or I can run like hell and save myself.
2:04.0	The other aspect of fear is that we might freeze, just like animals do in the wild.
2:09.7	We might freeze so that that predator doesn't chase us. That might be our best instinct in that
2:15.5	moment. So that fear response that is so natural that is a gift. Imagine me
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