I’ve lived in fear for most of my life. Afraid to show myself. Afraid to love. Afraid of rejection. The growing grays in my hair. That I won’t be able to get it up one day. Afraid I won’t be able to pay my bills. Afraid my dreams won’t come true. Afraid this is as good as it gets. And when you live with this much fear, you are no longer afraid of death. You become afraid of life. When fear becomes the daily blanket you wrap yourself in, your fears turn into walls as you create your own prison.
These walls separate you from your life. You start to die, slowly. Inside. These fears starve you of the new experiences required for you to grow, thrive, and evolve. You become a shell. And life just becomes an idea. If you feel that fear has stripped you of life and robbed you of sharing your gifts with the world, made you stay behind a window and watch your life instead of going outside and living one, maybe it’s time to start breaking down your walls of fear.
Here are six tips to help you free yourself. So that you can start to live again. Love again. Build again. Breathe again. Or maybe for the first time.
1. The Commitment.
We get to a point when we’re done allowing fear to rule us. Like a New Year resolution, we tell ourselves we’re going to work on dissolving them. We know we need to do this. So we make the…
