“We emerge out of the unknown and we’re always threatened by it. Not only as individuals but as a group and that means that we need to figure out what it is that should guide us in order to continually confront the unknown and prevail.” – Jordan Peterson
On episode #63, I talk bout the fears I had leaving my safe zone and what I did to overcome that challenge. My safe zone became my home while I was suffering from agoraphobia. To overcome my fear of having a health crisis in the outside world and having no one around (family or paramedics) to help me, I had to first start small. Small walks led to longer walks which then led to hours sitting at the coffee shop. The outside world became tolerable the more time I spent in it away from my safe zone. The idea here is to work with your emotional brain and to learn to associate walks away from your comfort zone as safe rather than fearful. You will then become braver and find that the outside world is not as scary as you thought it was.
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