Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast.

I'm your host, Josephine Hartman.

I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher,

driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within.

To explore my work or connect with me, you can visit josephinehardman.com.

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I so appreciate your presence here, and I'm honored to serve as a guide or companion on your path for a little while.

Now, on to the episode.

In a lot of ways, it's kind of a miracle that I'm talking to you now through this podcast,

and even that I started a podcast in the first place,

because I used to be terrified of speaking to other people on the telephone.

There is such a thing as telephobia, which is a phobia of speaking on the phone.

People who have social anxiety sometimes have this phobia as one of their symptoms.

And for me, it was really bad in middle school and into early high school. I had a fear of

saying something stupid or not knowing what to say or awkward silences or the person on the other

end of the phone not hearing me or not understanding me. It was all too stressful at the time, too triggering for me.

So my solution was to unplug our landline.

We still had a landline phone back then, a house phone.

I barely had a cell phone.

It was one of the flip phones.

We didn't have smartphones at the time.

Thank God.

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