(Great fears are barriers to experiencing your real life.)   Several years ago there was a popular song, still heard occasionally, titled “Is That All There Is?” It was about self-evaluation, unrequited requests, longing. This is a refrain you tend to hear from people who have lived a few years and feel they are closer …

(Great fears are barriers to experiencing your real life.)   It’s about believing you have something to hide. Believing you have deficiencies. The possible shame you could experience. It’s about “what would they think?” Notice the pattern. This whole fear is from your inner dialogue, stories you made up. Or were made up for you. …

(Great fears are barriers to experiencing your real life.)   This fear, if present, is usually in full bloom by the time we are teenagers. As part of our multiple-year growth process we go through many stages and one of those is developing the ability to affiliate or connect with others, a useful and healthy …

(Great fears are barriers to experiencing your real life.)   Fear is everywhere. The outside world appears to thrive on fear. It must, or it wouldn’t continue to generate so much of it. And not just at this time is fear so pervasive. There is no time in human history when large parts of the …