If you google “human’s number one fear” more than likely, you’ll find “public speaking” listed as that fear.

AND….when you peel back the layers, it’s not that people are afraid of public speaking, they are really afraid of being negatively evaluated…

which leads to a deeper fear of being rejected for not being good enough…

which ultimately leads to a deep fear of not belonging.

When we have the fear of not being good enough, therefore, not belonging we;

• Second guess ourselves
• Lack trust in & are paralyzed in our decision making
• Isolate ourselves from the connections we actually desire
• Feel empty
• Obsess over what we did or didn’t do
• Loop on the question “what will they think?"

I don’t know about you but when I was DEEP in this state, it was not an enjoyable life by any stretch of the imagination yet it seemed as if it was a black hole I couldn’t climb out of.

Eventually, I did...