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5 Ways to Speak Up Through Fear When it Matters the Most; For Bigger Love
There’s a way to move words from your heart to your tongue and speak what your heart aches to, even if you’ve been burned a thousand times by past mistakes, failures and lessons. Your heart was made for all the sorrow and all the joy. It’s time to go for the joy and speak the words that will bring you closer to bigger love. How? With awareness, curiostiy, courage, alignment and practice.
I spent much of my younger years keeping quiet in the name of “good girl.” Not only did I feel there would be not-so-great consequences to my out loud voice, I was afraid of being wrong, stupid, inappropriate, unprofessional or just plain-old rejected, unworthy of being loved.
Certain circumstances would be more paralyzing than others. Male authority figures would keep me shaky, sweaty and timid when it came to voicing my opinions or ideas.
Later when I relied on marketing to mostly male doctors to feed my physical therapy practice I spent most of my hours in dread, forcing myself to feel those feelings and go talk to them anyway. I wasn’t a complete failure in that world, but I spent a lot of years doing things that did not bring me joy, in the name of achievement.
