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Fear in Relationships

Episode Summary

Relationships can bring out the best in us… and all of our fears as well. This episode is for anyone with anxieties and fears around relationships.

Episode Notes

Relationships can bring out the best in us… and all of our fears as well. This episode is for anyone with anxieties and fears around relationships. 

Quotes to remember: 

“A relationship is not the answer to your problems in any way. It’s a mirror to show you more of who you are.”

“Within fear is an opportunity to discover just how powerful you are.” 

“It is not the absence of fear that defines a successful relationship; it’s the ability to move through that fear, to look at it and face it and move past it.” 

Takeaways:

• We will all feel fear in a relationship, and it’s not a sign that the relationship isn’t right
• Everyone has fears and a relationship will bring them to the surface
• Fear has a million faces and shows itself in myriad ways
• Fear is our mind’s response to being vulnerable
• It’s important to recognize fear and air it out rather than avoid it
• Love is the antithesis of fear; it is being open to anything that could happen
• There will never be a time when we have defeated all of our fears and no longer feel fear
• In a loving relationship, each individual is a willing participant in looking at themselves and who they are
• Why be in a relationship if it’s resonating with the energy of worry and doubt the entire time, a fear of it ending? 
• Rejection is not painful--self-rejection is
• There is no such thing as a perfect relationship without fears
• Being in relationship is one of the toughest things to do, period

What you’ll learn:

• Why we feel afraid in relationships
• A characterization of fear
• How to acknowledge fear and move through it in a relationship
• Tactics to jolt yourself out of the fear
• The purpose of relationship

Mentioned on the podcast:

• Self-Love episode

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Identify a lesson in a past or present relationship, and what it taught you about yourself. Feel gratitude for this lesson. 

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