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Hi, this is Kaisanga and I welcome you this Wednesday to Radio Headspace.

Back in June at the end of the school year, my daughter then in sixth grade had to take end of year exams and came to me and said that she felt terrible because she was scared to take the exams.

Naturally, I comforted her.

Validated her feelings, gave her some encouragement and eventually she was good to go.

But what it got me to thinking about is the unavoidable emotion of fear.

So the thing is, and I really can't stress this enough, there is absolutely nothing wrong with experiencing fear or really any strong emotion for that matter.

Remembering that fear is a completely natural and normal strong emotion that we all encounter on numerous occasions throughout our life.

This notion seems so simple that can be easily overlooked and taken for granted.

But when I personally really sat with it and digested it, it helped me so much during those moments when fear showed up.

Just a simple act of saying, okay, this is totally fear that's present right now and it's okay.

This is a normal and natural emotion that everyone in the world experiences at some point.

Taking that pause to acknowledge the fact to myself has made a world of a difference.

It's helped me to realize that I'm not alone in this experience.

There's something about knowing that everyone else also experiences it, that can be liberating and actually quite inspiring.

It says if you feel the support of the entire world and that can be an awesome feeling, it can help push you through the fear to the other side we're effective and appropriate action resides.

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