How To Handle Fear When It Shows Up

When Fear Shows Up is a grounding spoken word meditation for the moments when fear, scarcity, or survival mode thinking takes over.
Instead of fighting fear or letting it control you, this track helps you meet it with compassion, listen to what it is trying to protect, and reconnect to your inner wisdom.

This meditation is designed to help you:
• Regulate your nervous system in moments of stress
• Shift out of scarcity and survival patterns
• Reconnect with your intuition and inner knowing
• Build a healthier relationship with fear
• Practice presence, discernment, and grounded self trust
Whether fear arrives as anxiety, overthinking, urgency, or the freeze response, this piece guides you back to your own power with honesty and compassion. There is no bypassing here. Only truth and gentleness.

A reminder: fear may visit, but it does not get to decide your next step.
You do.

Photo by Gabor Kozmon on Unsplash

Transcript

When fear shows up,

You don't have to pretend you're not home.

You don't have to rush it or chant love and light over the sound of your own heartbeat.

Just open the door.

Let fear stand there for a minute.

Let it take its shoes off if it needs to.

Because sometimes fear isn't a warning,

It's a memory.

A body remembering the time it went without.

Without money,

Without safety,

Without someone to lean on.

It's not a curse,

It's a compass.

Pointing back to where you once felt powerless,

So you can choose differently this time.

When fear knocks,

Don't exile it and don't empower it.

Just breathe with it.

Say,

I hear you.

I know you're trying to protect me.

Because sometimes fear is that old voice whispering.

If I fix it fast enough,

I can make fear go away.

If I hold on tightly enough,

Nothing will have to change.

Both are versions of control.

One rushes toward action,

The other clings to what feels safe.

But control isn't the same as safety.

It's the mind's best attempt to protect what the heart hasn't yet learned to trust.

You don't have to choose either extreme.

You can breathe.

You can notice and you can move or not from clarity instead of fear.

Take a slow,

Deep breath in through your nose and out through your mouth.

Let your body remember you are allowed to be safe and expansive at the same time.

You can hold caution in one hand and courage in the other and still move forward.

Because alignment isn't about earning abundance.

It's about remembering that abundance is a way of being you can choose,

Even with fear as a visitor.

It's that quiet decision to breathe,

To stay,

To allow,

And to let yourself be abundant in presence.

I hope this was helpful and that you return whenever fear shows up.

Thank you.