Fear is one of those companions we all carry sometimes quietly, sometimes loudly. What struck me in reflecting on my own journey is how often I’ve mistaken comfort for courage. People look at the big moves 13 years of foster care, selling everything and moving to Montana, launching a nonprofit and say, “Wow, you’re so brave.” And yet, many of those choices didn’t scare me. They were hard, yes, but they still sat in my comfort zone because I knew my capacity. The real fear showed up in unexpected places being seen, letting go of perfection, or even entertaining the dream of leaping out of a plane.
That’s the thing about fear: it disguises itself as safety, but really it’s resistance. It’s the heaviness in our chest when we want something but convince ourselves it’s impossible. Fear asks us to stay small, but growth asks us to get curious. Sometimes that means going backwards before we can go forward revisiting an old belief, an unhealed place, or a story that shaped how we define “safe.” Because when we finally face the fear we’ve been avoiding, we create the space for new possibilities to unfold.
So I’ll ask you what I’m asking myself: where is fear holding the pen in your story? And what step even a small one could you take to rewrite it? Maybe it’s asking the question you’ve been afraid to ask, showing up in a space you’ve been avoiding, or daring to imagine something different for your future. Courage isn’t the absence of fear it’s the decision to walk with it, hand in hand, toward the life you’re called to live.
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