Knowing how to help clients work through fear is one of the most important skills a coach, therapist, or transformational practitioner can develop. Fear can stand directly in the way of your clients taking action toward the goals they hired you for. And when it shows up unskillfully navigated, it can bring your work together to a complete standstill.
Most practitioners try to help clients talk through their fear, or "release" it altogether. Neither approach actually works. What works is a process to Befriend the Fear — one that moves beyond purely cognitive learning and processing.
In this inaugural episode, we go deep into the human behavior behind fear, and the most important principles coaches and practitioners need to know in order to help clients coexist with fear in regulated, empowered ways.
Once you learn how to work with fear more skillfully, you become poised to co-create even better results with your clients. And as always, everything you learn here about fear will teach you something about yourself, and how you can become better friends with fear in your own life too.
Topics we cover:
- The ways fear shows up in client sessions
- What happens when we pathologize fear
- Where fear comes from
- The benefits of helping clients distinguish between present and past resources
- The principle of risk when fear gets activated
- Discomfort versus pain, and how this distinction helps you work with fear
- Why releasing fear isn't viable or safe, and what to do instead
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