Week 2 - ROOTED

My life was driven by a hundred forms of fear. When I got sober, I thought fear would eventually fade away. Nah, that’s not the case. Those same old fears still creep up today…but today I get to deal with them differently. The only way we conquer fear is by running directly towards it. Are you rooted in running towards your fear or running away from it? And if you’re running away, are those fears consuming you?

Amanda McKoy Flanagan will join me as our Guest Storyteller. Amanda has been sober since 2006 and she’s the author of “Trust Yourself to Be All In”. Five years ago Amanda lost her bother to a drug overdose. Fear was taking center stage. She had a breakthrough moment where she realized she was safe enough to face her fears: “In that moment I realized I was going to be okay—not that everything was going to turn out okay—but I would be okay.” Today Amanda allows herself to feel the feeling of fear…while moving all the way into those fears.