Flip Your Fear

A four-step guide to finding the desire underneath your anxiety — with a guided meditation to bring you back to yourself.

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    You wake up and there it is.

    That heavy, familiar weight sitting on your chest before you've even opened your eyes. The dread. The low hum of worry that follows you from the kitchen to the car to the meeting and back again.

    You know you "should" meditate — but right now it's just another thing on the list of things you're supposed to be doing and aren't, which makes you feel even worse about yourself.

    So you push through. You manage. You cope. But deep inside, you wonder whether there might be another way to make it through life.

    Here's the amazing thing about anxiety that nobody tells you.

    Anxiety is not a character flaw, or proof that something is wrong with you. Anxiety isn't even something we need to get rid of.

    Anxiety is desire in disguise.

    Every anxious thought has a feeling on the other side of it — a longing, a want, a deep knowing of what you actually need. When you learn to flip the fear and find that feeling, something remarkable happens. The constriction loosens. The dread softens. Energy you didn't know you had starts moving through you again.

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      I've been where you are.

      As an anxiety sufferer — and panic-attack-haver — from the age of 7, I've tried a gazillion techniques to ease the anxiety, worry, and dread that accompanied me through childhood and early adulthood. Nothing has been more helpful to me than this approach.

      I've since taught it to thousands of students and clients, and I've watched it change lives — easing anxiety in a real and ongoing way, and helping people find their inner longing, calling, and desire.

      And I promise: I'm not going to tell you to think positive, be grateful, or just meditate more.

      What I'll teach you instead is a four-step process for finding the desired feeling underneath each anxious thought — and how to actually embody that feeling in your body right now, for immediate relief and a sense of forward motion.

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      What’s Inside

      • A step-by-step guide — walking you through all four steps: how to locate the anxious thought, how to flip it to find the desire underneath, how to feel that desire in your body, and how to let it become a source of energy and clarity instead of dread.

      • A guided meditation — to take you through the process experientially, so it lives in your body and not just your head.

      • Journaling prompts — to help you go deeper, find the specific desires underneath your specific fears, and start letting those desires lead.

      It makes sense that you're anxious.

      There is a lot to be anxious about. You are likely holding the world together for many people right now.

      And yet — it's very hard to help others from a place of anxiety, depletion, and burnout.

      The desires underneath your fears are calling you back to yourself. This bundle will help you hear them.

      Yael makes me feel seen and heard, and is never judgmental. She helped me get tothe root of some of my insecurities and anxieties and gave me tools to practice mindfulness in my day to day life.
      — Izzy C.

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