How To Overcome Fear | Overcoming Fears

It could be how you overcame your fear of being alone (fear of abandonment), your fear of snakes, your fear of falling, your fear of clowns - even your fear of long words (aka hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, believe it or not!).

How to overcome fear - what I say

Now I'm no expert at overcoming fears, believe me, but I do have a much better understanding about what causes fear in the first place! And, by and large, it's usually about childhood fears that were not properly addressed at the time by either parent or child.

Still, I didn't get where I am today by not knowing how to overcome fear! (To a degree, anyway - and neither did you!) So I'm going to remind us all about overcoming fears in general - facing fear, as it were - and then I'm going to get the ball rolling by explaining how I overcome one of my fears.

So... How To Overcome Fears?

What causes fear? Who knows, really! It's much more important, I believe, to understand how to get past your fear. And you do that by taking these 3 steps:

And that includes the action of sharing how you overcome your fears, even if you haven't quite got there yet!

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How to overcome fears - what YOU say...

Do you have a story to tell us about successfully facing fear, even a childhood fear, in your life? Then please share it, here! Thanks.

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