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Martha Beck ON: How To Let Go of Fear, Stop Listening to Others, and Learn To Trust Yourself

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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The Scariest Thing I've Ever Experienced

The fear is only there because we already know what's inside there. Find a thing you're frightened to think about and you don't need to think about it yet just identify it, she says. "For me the scariest thing was when i was 25 and i was now getting my doctorate so my third harvard degree" Her son was prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome before he was born. She writes in her book that anyone who can feel joy belongs here as much as anybody else on Earth.

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