I realized years ago that fear is something that I'll never get rid of completely. I don't believe in being fearless. As long as we're alive, we are going to experience fear. But do you know what I do believe in? I believe if we're going to do fear, we can do it in style. And that's what I'm talking about in today's episode. So let's dive in. 

Welcome to the School of Self Image, where personal development meets style.

Here's your hostess, Master Life Coach, Tonya Leigh. 

Hello, my beautiful friends. Welcome back to another episode. I'm having so much fun this week. I've been teaching the Week of Calm and we are wrapping it up. And it's been really interesting for me to get to know this whole new group of women who are just now being exposed to my work and hearing from the community at large about what they're worried about, what they're afraid of. I think we all experience normal fear and it's a good thing. It's the fear of heights, it's the fear of predators or any kind of dangerous situation. And then there are some people that experience phobias. And these are intense and irrational fears of maybe specific objects or situations or activities. And they tend to go beyond a normal fear response. 

Some people have a fear of failure. And this fear revolves around the apprehension of not being perfect, of not meeting expectations, of making mistakes and being judged for it. Some people fear rejection. They fear being excluded and criticized and judged negatively by other people. Some people fear sort of an existential kind of thing, like the fear of life and death and meaning and the unknown. This is usually around our aw