This episode explores how FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) manifests for those of us living kid-free, and what we can choose to aspire towards instead.

The frustrating reality of FOMO is that the fear we feel, which is a legitimate and tangible feeling, is based on our belief that the alternate [better] reality or situation that we imagine is also legitimate and tangible. Which is completely absurd because we literally invent it in our brains. It is a dream. But we give the dream so much power over us, we end up suffering from self-imposed feelings of guilt, shame, isolation, angst and insecurity. We create our own misery.

At the end of the day, FOMO is rooted in three detrimental thought patterns:

• We can and should compare our lives to the lives of others
• “The grass is always greener”
• We are victims of circumstances we can’t control