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Fear is an interesting emotion. It protects us from dangerous situations and can help us to not make dumb decisions, but it also can keep us from taking necessary risks that are vital to doing what we know is necessary and a part of our steps forward. When used properly, fear can be life saving as a natural stress response signal to take action. We are wired to survive and our fight, flight and freeze brain responses send a flood of chemical responses to our defense, including cortisol and adrenaline which are meant to happen momentarily and sporadically for protective measures; but if this release becomes engrained and recycled over time, it becomes a life damaging reaction that keeps people stuck, confused and preferring the familiar place of enslavement over the uncertainty of freedom. It shifts from a temporary signal to an entrenched lifestyle. Our brain is “use dependent” so repeated use of toxic stress and fear can become the trained normal to our mindset instead of the