Elizabeth Cush on Feeling and Facing Fear
What’s at the heart of fear? In this episode of Woman Worriers, host Elizabeth Cush explores what it’s like to feel fear—and offers an antidote.
“I felt as if I wasn’t seen as a person, but as an object to intimidate.”
Show Notes:
How often have you struggled with fear? It’s a powerful emotion that can stay with us long after the perceived threat has passed. In this episode of the Woman Worriers podcast, host Elizabeth Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist and founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., shares an experience that frightened her—and then explores how it made her feel and why. She puts herself in her intimidator’s head and then looks at her own assumptions. She concludes this week’s episode with a guided metta meditation to help you bring loving-kindness into your life, your community and your world.
Listen and learn:
How a highway encounter sparked an exploration of fear
The range of emotions that can accompany fear
How uncertainty can feel threatening
The fearful places our imagination can take us
How we can relive the physical sensations of fear even after the threat has passed
The objectification at the heart of intimidation—the frightening experience of being “a thing”
How an “Us vs. Them” dynamic causes people to live in fear
How snap judgments can cause us to fear—or cause us to overlook others’ humanity
The role of mindfulness, self compassion and meditation
How to practice metta, or loving-kindness, meditation to get in touch with our common humanity
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> Jack Kornfield loving-kindness meditation
> The effect of loving-kindness meditation on positive emotions: a meta-analytic review
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