517 SelfWork: Challenging Your Fear and The Underlying Assumptions That Keep It Alive
The SelfWork PodcastShow Notes
There’s a word for intense fear of change. Metathesiophobia.
That’s when your fear of change is so strong and affects your life so intensely that you’ve developed an actual phobia around change. If that has become the case, then you’d avoid any change in your life as much as possible and stay in a constant state of agitation or vigilance about potential change.
But change is inevitable. Time brings change. People change. Children change. Circumstances change. Cultures change. Even beliefs can change.
In this episode of SelfWork, we’ll tackle this very important distinction: how you’re fearing something because of the limited information you have about it, not realizing how your own assumptions about it are keeping you afraid.
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