Honouring Fear as Your Mentor: Thoughts from the Edge - Manda Scott

About this episode

Manda Scott explores the nature of fear and how to work with it for personal transformation and connection.

In this podcast Manda dives deep into the nature of fear, what it is and how we might find our own resources, resilience and capacity to work with the parts that catch our attention. Given this, it is recommended that you listen at a time and place where you can give it full attention. We believe that we are in a time of total transformation and the potential is enormous - if enough of us can do the work to free up the stuck parts inside so that we can be fully present, fully able to respond to the needs of every moment as it arises. Nobody is suggesting this is easy work, but it is absolutely the work of this moment. If we can all free up our stuck places so that our connections between all parts of ourselves, ourselves and each other, ourselves and the Web of Life are free and fluid - then we can begin to step into what's ours to do in the moment, rather than rehashing old stories of old hurts - that may not be ours, but may be inherited from the generations that have gone before. We need not to pass them on, but more than that, we need to be able to connect in real time with all that's around us in an ever-changing world. [For those of you who attended the Gathering Honouring…

People in this episode

Guest: Manda Scott

Topics covered

• fear
• resilience
• transformation
• self-awareness
• connection

Keywords

• fear
• resilience
• transformation
• self
• connection
• Web of Life
• old stories

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