Bravery is not about being fearless, because that’s impossible—or psychopathic. Instead, bravery is about moving forward despite feeling fear. It’s about willingly engaging in behaviours that make you emotionally uncomfortable and actually increasing that discomfort by choice. Courage is about understanding that feeling emotionally uncomfortable is not a signal to stop moving forward; it’s actually a signal that you’re growing. Read More

This video is part 4 of a 6-part series on self love. Let’s look at the differences between anxiety and nervousness, because they are not the same experience, and one is more harmful than the other. I’m suggesting that anxiety leads to stress due to its focus on uncontrollable future events, while nervousness, which involves immediate, controllable situations, does not. Read More

The most common and discouraging questions you’ll ask yourself about any of your goals is, What if it doesn’t work? or, What if it goes wrong? These types of questions appear to be rational, a consideration of reasonable risks, but actually they come from your irrational fears, i.e. fears that do not align with any genuine danger. These questions are Read More

One lesson I keep learning the hard way is that memory cannot be relied on when it comes to confidence and self development. I’ve got a little hypothesis about this, I dunno how scientifically accurate it is… The hippocampus and the amygdala are right next to each other in the brain. One controls memory and the other controls fear (simplistically Read More

Get your Daily Dose of Integrity with my FREE newsletter here: https://danthecoach.substack.com/ The fundamental belief at the heart of being afraid of rejection is taking it personally. It’s this idea that if someone doesn’t like me, as “proven” by their rejection, that is confirmation that there is something wrong with me. This is some sort of accurate, unbiased judgment, and Read More

Join my free group coaching program for confidence and integrity here: https://theinspirationallifestyle.com/the-integrity-army-free-group-coaching-with-dan-munro/ I know from experience, it can be really difficult to figure out whether your fear is rational or irrational. You know, whether you’re right to be afraid of this thing or if it’s just your insecurities and trauma and bullshit coming up. And one way to figure this Read More

Join The Integrity Army for free confidence and integrity coaching here https://theinspirationallifestyle.com/the-integrity-army-free-group-coaching-with-dan-munro/ Quick little rant: Imagine you have an AI robot slave. You tell it, “Go down to the local store and buy me a can of corn for my lunch.” Now, if you were to give this command to a functioning human being, the worst case scenario is that Read More

As I’ve previous discussed in this podcast episode, fear controls us in the sneakiest of ways. Feeling “afraid” is actually relatively rare, as is “terror”. Even anxiety doesn’t occur to most people very noticeably or often. And yet fear is present in our lives throughout the day, every day, influencing nearly every decision and we’re barely aware of it’s existence. Today, Read More

Watch the video above, or read the transcript version below Today we’re going to be talking about something deep and dark: the fear of abandonment. This is the one fear to rule them all. It’s the secret fear underneath all of your problematic behavior in the social world and you’ve probably never even heard of it. What is the fear Read More

Do you find yourself in a strange loop of self sabotage? In this video, we explore the secret barrier called the fear of success, and how it stops you more than fear of failure ever could. Read More

Underneath it all, there's only really ONE thing you need to work on. There's one main X Factor to all the suffering you've ever experienced. Read More

Guest post by Sarah Fader from Betterhelp.com Anxiety has a tendency to take over our minds and bodies. It can come out of seemingly nowhere and cause you to feel out of control. Your hands begin to shake or your heart races and you feel like it will never end. Anxiety manifests differently in different people, but across the board, Read More