💗 Heal the fear and do it anyway

The first time I heard that statement ‘Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway’, it was in relation to the book by Susan Jeffers. A very popular book back in the early 80’s when the world was turning ‘new-age’. That’s what holistic living was called then. I remember being very triggered by it as it sounded really strong.

Language is very important, I am constantly working on mine, not just the bad language I can sometimesuse, but everyday expressive language. How the message is delivered is really important. Like I just said, it can sound like an order, or it could be made to sound like a suggestion just by changing the language.

No criticism to the author, but to me and its only me, it sounded like an order. It also sounded like if I couldn’t do it then I had failed in some way.

A couple of weeks ago, I chose to ‘heal’ the fear and then do it anyway!

I’m going to tell you a little story about an experience I had when I was very young, so we are going back to five decades ago!

At that time back in the last century, the health service visited the schools and the doctor g