Hey, everyone, it's Eric here with a mini episode.

And I want to talk about fear because it is something that we are all dealing with right now, right?

It's probably the only thing that's more contagious than the coronavirus right now is our fear around it.

And I'm not going to say whether that fear is justified, how afraid we should be.

I'm not going to say whether the way that we're responding as a country or as a society is the right way,

because those questions are way beyond my pay grade.

And I don't think any of us know right now.

But here's what I do know fear will corrode us from the inside out if we're not careful.

I also know that our mental, emotional and physical health are really important in times like these in dealing with crises.

So it's important that we find ways to allow the fear to be there, allow ourselves to stay informed about what's going on out there.

But also not let the fear and the agitation control us take us over because that wears us out.

It wears us out mentally, emotionally, ultimately, physically.

And that does not help us or the loved ones around us and our communities that depend upon us.

So we've got to find a way to engage with this in a skillful, useful way.

We've got to find a way to feed our good wolf when it comes to dealing with the circumstance.

And that's kind of what I'd like to spend just a couple minutes talking about in this short episode.

Several different ideas came to mind for me when I started working on thinking about wanting to say something brief here about all this.

And the first that came to mind was the author Mark Neppo, who we interviewed recently.

That episode will be coming out.

But he and I were talking and he had a line that really stuck with me that said we've become addicted to the noise of things falling apart.

And he actually that line was written outside of this context, but in this context, it makes a lot of sense.

We are very much addicted to the noise of things falling apart in general.

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