“I would plan a trip to SE Asia for my upcoming vacation, BUT I’m scared.” Usually, I put into action this technique that I use with my patients which comes from “Acceptance and Commitment Therapy” and is called “exchanging BUT for AND.” Oh yes, I may have created a life for myself in another country halfway around the world from where I grew up and I now am doing what could be considered the job of my dreams, but am I fearless? Oh no, I am so far from it.īut I do feel successful in the sense that more often than not I don’t let this fear paralyze me (the exception being my lack of recent blog posts).

Sometimes even fear of getting out of bed in the morning. And it’s a topic I know very well from my own personal experiences. How else could we have gotten to where we are unless our lives were devoid of fear? This is a topic that seems to come up in almost every single session I have. There’s this myth circulating around in our society that those of us who follow our dreams are fearless. There’s also one other factor that comes into play in my procrastination on writing content, one that probably almost any writer, or human being for that matter, could relate to and that is…. Between coaching clients, running the Location Independent Therapists community, writing my book, taking care of my son, and making time for my own self-care…well my blog sometimes gets put on the back burner. Unfortunately, there never seems to be enough time to put into writing all of the topics I’d like to share on.

Each and everyday topics come up in my coaching sessions that make me think “ooh! That would make a great blog post!” The past few weeks have been incredibly busy and I’m finding it hard to carve out time in my schedule to write content for this site.

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