Fear Isn’t The Enemy

Faith over fear. Mind over mountain. Heart over hardship.

They're easier statements to speak than put into action and embody.

However, the fear, mountain and hardship are exactly what give life its spice. It's important to embrace discomfort, whether that's in your day-to-day living, or a single significant project, challenge or experience.

It’s these mountains, and your willingness to feel every step, that changes your life and gives you deep insight into who you are and what you’re capable of.

It lives in what you procrastinate on. In what you fear. What you avoid and distract yourself from. What are those things for you?

Fear will teach you most in the places you refuse to look.

When I had to leave all my sports behind to heal my body, fear became my teacher. Downhill mountain biking, cycling, running, snowboarding. They were all gone. My heart was broken, but so was my body. Seven years later, slowly and patiently, I added them back into my life, one sport at a time. I faced my most difficult challenge of supporting my body and facing all the fears and frustrations that I met in my darkest places.

I focused on relearning my body and standing face to face with everything that happened inside my mind in that process.

This process is terrifying. Facing the unknown. Diving deep into your darkest, most hidden places to dig out what hurts.

Remember this: Fear isn't an enemy, it's a guide.

Nerves keep the mind sharp and alert. Emotions that rise during any challenging process are there as a call to presence. 

We don't grow through avoidance or stagnancy. We only grow by living the experience.

I challenge you to face one of your fears. Do something that you're nervous about. Break routine. Do it for yourself, to feel full alive.

An incredible thrill lives in that process of doing, of acting, not in the absence of fear and discomfort, but in spite of it. To be wild in the face of life itself. It's a great way to breath energy into your experience, push your own boundaries to prove you have the strength to make it through, and  keep the little things that bother you every day in perspective.

Always keep your wild intact. It’s one of your most powerful gifts as a human being, the ability to feel and act and express.

Your wild is the part of you that fear can never own.

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