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You have a great life but you aren’t really present in it. You can’t really enjoy it.

You’re amazing (don’t protest – yes, you are!) but you’re incapable of seeing your wicked intellect and unique talents.

You’re overwhelmed. You freak yourself out imagining the worst case scenario in the greatest of detail, and then try to make yourself feel better planning what you’re doing to do about it, which only makes you more freaked out. 

And, how crazy scary do the things you imagine then become in the middle of the night?!?! Although you know intellectually you shouldn’t be worried, you cannot make yourself believe there’s nothing to be afraid of, and, no matter how hard you try, you can’t stop thinking about it.

Sometimes you’re betrayed by your body — your heart beats so hard, your breath gets shallow, and your stomach is in knots. Your body is telling you, “Enough already.”  

Sometimes you feel like you’re going crazy. You would love to stop overthinking every damn thing and just be free to do it already, or at least let go of the worry… But… you don’t, you can’t… because how do you know it’ll be okay? If you could just be certain it would be fine, you could calm down — but certainty eludes us all — and so it goes.

People you know would be surprised to learn about your struggles. But I see you.  I know you. I understand. And I can help you overcome.

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You can continue doing what you’re doing. Things aren’t that bad. You can hold it together. It’s not like you’re not able to function.

Let’s imagine what that looks like. You stay the course and do nothing different. Perhaps you keep trying what you’ve been trying. Your experience of overwhelm and worry will continue, and may intensify, as what you feed will grow.

You will continue to look forward, anticipating and preparing for fears that never materialize. Or, you’ll continue to wait to do things until you’re accomplished enough, fit enough, confident enough… In doing so, you will waste your gifts, your strengths, the amazing uniqueness that you have to offer to the world, as well as your time and energy.  

You will remain disconnected from what really matters in your life. You will continue to avoid — at all costs — the things that scare you, the things that are uncomfortable. You’ll do what’s safe.  And you’ll avoid risk. And, you will therefore simply tolerate your safe, boring life.

You will put your efforts toward surviving, plodding along, day after day, subsisting on only the crumbs that life has to offer. And over time, your life will get smaller, and smaller… and smaller.

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I invite you to imagine a day in which you are free to choose your actions based on what excites you and what you’re curious about, rather than steering clear of what scares you.  

Imagine channeling all of your anxious energy toward achieving your goals, building your confidence, and moving beyond fear.

What would that life look like?  What would you be able to do that you cannot do now?

What would happen, how would your life change, if you were unleashed, and no longer limited?

You’re ready to move forward.

You’re ready for it to be different.

You can imagine a bigger, richer life.

You want to grab, with both hands, more life, with no limits, free from anxiety.