(Great fears are barriers to experiencing your real life.)


This one can sting. Think back to your teenage years.

Teenagers want to fit in. Be accepted by their peers. Stand out, even. So we had a particular sensitivity to being seen as less-than. (I realize your personal journey may have been one in which you excelled at weirdness! But even then, your peers ridiculing you was not something you wanted.)

What’s ‘wrong’ with ridicule? If/when you feel it means you are holding yourself as somehow beneath or inferior to your ridiculer. It’s not about them and what they do. It’s about how you take it.

Being belittled, mocked, or scorned can flow right through you. Unless you have hooks that grab them. Then it feels yucky.

That yuckiness is at the heart of this Great Fear. It’s not about what ‘they’ do.

Your self-esteem and self-image shape your experiences. It’s all in how you hold yourself. Building your personal foundation can eliminate the fear of being ridiculed.


Coaching Point: Or did this fear dissipate in you long ago?


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