Why Fear Is Keeping You Stuck in Life with Brad Axelrad

Enthusiastically Spiritual: Uplifting Conversations on Mindfulness, Trust, Intuition & Spiritual Perspectives

Teresa & Tom Shantz - Mindfulness & Spirituality Experts

Psychic, Balance, Universe, Spiritual Guides, Education, Cleansing, Healing, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Direction, Energy, Spiritual, Inner Guidance, Spirituality, Intuition

5.0 • 138 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail "Argue with reality, you'll suffer." In this powerful conversation, Brad Axelrad from Face Your Dragon podcast, explores the growing sense of disconnection many people have experienced in the post-COVID world and why fear often sits at the center of personal struggle and transformation. Together, the discussion dives into the five core fears that can keep people stuck, disconnected, and hesitant to fully step into their purpose. "Your fears are your friend." Brad share...

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0:00.0	What if you didn't have to navigate uncertain times alone? What have you had a steady place to land,
0:06.2	a place where your intuition is strengthened, not dismissed, where your spiritual questions are welcomed,
0:13.0	and where growth feels grounded instead of overwhelming? Welcome to reawaken. Reawaken is a monthly
0:20.0	membership for people who know there's more,
0:22.4	more awareness, more clarity, more connection, and who are ready to access it in a practical way.
0:29.9	Inside, you'll receive a monthly live regrouping to realign and refocus, ongoing tools to strengthen
0:36.6	discernment, intuition, and emotional awareness.
0:40.2	This isn't about escaping the world. It's about becoming steady within it. It's about learning
0:46.5	to trust your inner compass. It's about moving from reaction to awareness. It's about remembering
0:52.7	who you are and walking forward with clarity.
0:55.8	If you're ready to feel supported, aligned, and spiritually grounded, reawaken is here.
1:01.7	Join us and reawaken the part of you that already knows.
1:05.6	See the link in the show notes to find out more.
1:18.9	Music notes to find out more. So, Brad, in a world where there's so much connection these days, why do you feel people feel so
1:26.0	disconnected to themselves and others?
1:30.6	Well, there was that thing called COVID, I think, that was one of the shocking, jarring
1:38.1	things to our system that created isolation and, you know, us living in our own spaces, which was, I think, a gift for so many to be with ourselves at that level and to experience the levels of fear and uncertainty that so many avoid.
1:56.9	You know, I think, I think fear is our friend and that we should embrace the discomfort that we might have, even going out in a social setting where we'll be near someone and afraid to open up and communicate or afraid to go out into a social setting because of the discomfort that comes from energetics and our old programming and imprinting from our childhood, all of our trauma,
2:20.7	all that stuff that keeps us separate in our own world and not open.
2:26.7	Our hearts aren't open.
2:27.9	Our minds aren't open.
2:28.9	Our thoughts aren't open.
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