“Equipping you with the tools to bridge the gap between dreams and reality”
Our Mission Is Simple;
we want to empower people to perceive fear in a different way. A way that helps them approach scary yet crucial moments as keys to growth and opportunity.
How we help you perceive fear in a new way and develop a healthier relationship with it?
We’re passionate about helping people build a better relationship with fear; one that helps them live a life they love and reach their full potential.
Whether that’s in big, life-changing moves, or subtle day-to-day decisions that compound into creating the life you want, at its core, the journey starts in the same place: developing a healthier relationship with fear.
So, how do we do this?
1. Shifting the definition of fear
Most people believe feeling fear is limited to occasions where they experience intense feelings of fear caused by an obvious threat, like a bear charging at them. We believe in a much broader definition of fear, where the word points to the physical and mental experience we have when we perceive any threat.
In the modern world, where physical threats have become a rarity in our day-to-day lives, our brain has learnt to perceive threats in all sorts of places and ways that aren’t necessarily related to our physical safety. Unchecked fear combined with unconscious beliefs creates barriers, and this is what keeps us stuck.
This is why we see fear as an umbrella term for all other subcategories of fear: anxiety, worry, terror, panic, stress, nervousness, insecurity and more.
Recognising and owning your fears is not a weakness, but a huge act of courage and strength.
This is easier done when you redefine what it is.
2. Following the Exploring Fear methodology
Do you believe that saying you’re afraid is a weakness? We often equate being afraid with being helpless.
The ironic truth is that if we don’t recognise we feel afraid, we can’t do anything about the barrier that fear creates. The first and greatest step you can take is recognising fear, and how it plays out in your life.
At its very core, our methodology can be funnelled down to one word: curiosity. When you are curious about fear, it helps you face it with a lightness that makes it more approachable. When you get curious about fear and face it head on, you often find it wasn’t as bad as you imagined.
Our methodology combines two main practices:
Reframing key experiences
Graded exposure
Reframing involves consciously changing how you interpret and view situations. Graded exposure means taking small, actionable steps through whatever it is causing you to feel fear to help you gradually expand your window of tolerance.
What We Believe A Healthy Relationship with Fear Looks Like
Fear exists for good reason. If we never felt it, we’d all have died millions of years ago from falling off cliffs or abandoning our tribes and getting eaten by a lion. Never feeling scared in life isn’t our goal, but not letting fear dictate our lives for us is.
A healthy relationship with fear is:
Rationally and accurately judging a risk vs reward situation and making a decision based on fact, not fiction
Feeling the fear, accepting it and still doing the thing
Trusting and knowing your skills and capacity and not letting other’s voices distract you from what you know you’re capable of
Challenging maladaptive core beliefs and replacing them with new, more beneficial ones
Knowing how to match your energy to the level required for the task at hand
Being able to judge when to move forward through fear and when to step away
Turning fear into excitement when appropriate
A healthy relationship with fear is where love meets fear and shows compassion to it.
Meet Louis, founder of Exploring Fear. His personal story is foundational to our ethos
“I’ve been exploring the physical world through parkour, climbing and cliff jumping for a long time now. It was through doing these activities and pushing the boundaries of my environment and limitations that I discovered a common denominator in everything I was doing - the situations and jumps were all different, but the barrier I had to overcome was always the same: fear.
I realised that over time, I had unintentionally developed systems for dealing with fear, which could then be transferred into all areas of my life. Where fear was still holding me back from living the life I wanted to live, I now had systems to work through it and reach my full potential.
I became aware of the alternative to accepting the powerlessness fear causes. Excited by what I had learnt, I started sharing it in workshops and online.
What began as a personal exploration of fear in the physical world evolved into developing a framework to face fear in all its many dimensions.
Exploring Fear is the culmination of my life experience, shared with everyone who wants it. I’m honoured and excited to share it with the world.”