60-Second Mind Shift: From Healing to Action - Turning Fear into Forward Motion
Supporting you to free your mind so you can live from your heart!
"Fear is a funny thing. The very instinct designed to protect us also holds us back."
– Ruth Soukup
Do It Afraid
I spent years thinking there was something deeply wrong with me for feeling afraid all the time—especially after all the trauma healing work I’d done.
But coaching helped me break out of the endless loop of trying to “heal enough” to finally feel ready.
Instead, I began training my brain to focus on what mattered most to me and the contribution I’m here to make.
I started taking messy, imperfect action, even while still feeling anxious, sad, or not-okay. I stopped expecting to feel good all the time. I learned how the brain functions and realized mine was interpreting everyday life as dangerous, even when it wasn’t.
Over time, I became stronger.
I discovered that courage is not something you’re born with, it’s a skill. One you can develop like a muscle.
It’s the courage to act in the face of uncertainty.
To move forward even when your brain gives you every reason to stay where you are. To follow your heart’s desire to grow - even when it feels terrifying.
Learning to do it afraid, again and again, and recognizing that fear is normal, is what builds true confidence. And that confidence, built through imperfect action, is what leads to real, lasting transformation.
For a long time, I thought I needed to “get over” fear.
But what I learned is that our human brains are naturally anxious—still wired much like they were thousands of years ago, when their main job was to keep us alive by protecting us from real, physical threats like saber-toothed tigers.
Today, the threats have changed. In some parts of the world, people are still living in literal survival mode due to war, famine, and violence. Their fear response is tragically appropriate—it’s trying to keep them alive.
But in places where basic physical safety is generally met, the brain still interprets emotional discomfort, things like embarrassment, rejection, or failure - as life-threatening.
The brain doesn’t know the difference.
And worse, it makes it personal:
I am a failure.
No one wants me.
It turns momentary fear into a fixed identity.
However, what’s in the way is rarely who you are. It’s often just a lack of skill in a particular area. That’s it.
This is something I now work on with clients, many of whom are just as surprised as I was to discover that “doing it afraid” is the skill we’re actually building.
Step By Step,
Jessie
Step By Step,
Jessie
