Doubt Vs Fear
Click here to watch the replay of this awesome interview where we go deep about facing resistance, doubt and fear when writing a book. I also announced the launch of my new book, You First! You First introduces you to simple practices for taking care of you while you are taking care of all your responsibilities.
Other people will always need something from you – especially those you love – whether it’s a smile, acknowledgement, to listen or to help with homework or dinner.
Empower your life:
- Make you your #1 priority
- Be inspired to take care of yourself
- Discover practical ways to bring your life into balance when you’re thrown off center
- Practice putting you first
Journey around the sacred wheel of self-discovery as you reconnect to your own inner wisdom and remember to sing, to dance, to find the sweetness in silence and to tell your stories. When you learn to change your story, you will change your life and know that to nurture you intentionally is to KNOW YOU INTIMATELY, body, mind, heart, and soul.
You First started out as a small e-book developed from a chapter in the book I was writing. I took a class on how to write an e-book and was told to start with something I had already written. As I wrote, the chapter morphed into a full fledged short read and took on a life of it’s own leading me down the path of remembering how important it was to take care of me.
Resistance and doubt often travel hand in hand with a writer. I was working with Dawn as my writing coach, working my way through the chapters of Get Off the Shelf (the bigger book) when You First took center stage. Dawn was instrumental in helping me keep my focus on the prize, with both books. Resistance looked like distractions and doubt pretended to be my tired self needing a nap. Beneath them both lay their not so subtle cousin, fear.
When we bump up against distractions, doubt, resistance, life, we are really stuffing an underlying fear of…
Is it a fear of failure?
Fear of being seen?
Fear of what other people might think? That was a biggee for me, I even gave it a name – WOPT.
When I look deeper into doubt, I can see a lack of faith and where there is a lack of faith there is a lack of hope, hence doubt.
What if, well maybe, if I do what might happen, I’m not good enough, I’m not a writer, who am I to do this book, it has already been done a million times and by authors a lot smarter than me…. Do you see it? When you lack faith in yourself, you are opening the door for doubt to take center stage. When you don’t see a way through, hope is lost in the chaos and fear. That is a prime recipe for resistance.
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Vicki Dobbs is a bold and adventurous warrior walking a path of heart to manifest spirituality in everyday lives. She opens existential gateways for individuals to face their challenges and embrace these tests as the great teachers that they are.
Her goal is to see everyone walk in beauty and balance every day of their lives empowered by the voice of their own authentic truth.
Through Wisdom Evolution and Sacred Wisdom Workshops, Vicki creates opportunities for others to make deep personal changes through experiential classes, ceremony, sacred art and story. She endeavors to inspire others to create their lives intentionally. Vicki is an Inspirator of everyday awareness, an Instigator of spontaneous stories and a Connoisseur of Creativity. Gratitude and grace sprinkled with humility and humor are the medicine she brings to the world.
As an Elder, Teacher and Entrepreneur, Spiritual Coach, Ordained Minister and Crafter of Sacred Art and Tools, Vicki perceives life’s journey as an ever-upward spiraling ascension of the human spirit leading her to wisdom, wholeness and authenticity.
Her experience includes being trained in the Harner Method of Shamanic Counseling and the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of Cross Cultural Shamanism. She is a Graduate Teacher and Mentor with the Lynn Andrews Center For Sacred Arts and Training and has been the Administrator and Writers Guide for Writing Spirit, the School.
Vicki is also an Artist of the Spirit Certified Spiritual and Energetic Life Coach, a Graduate Mentor in the AoS program and a founding member of HeatherAsh Amara’s Warrior Goddess Leadership Team and Facilitator of the Warrior Heart Practice.
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