132: Facing Your Fears

Friends, it’s 2024 and I can’t even believe it! I’m actually recording this at the end of 2023 and Rob and I just came back from an amazing trip to Costa Rica. His 50th birthday trip! On one of the last days of our trip, I had an experience that was pretty profound for me. After that, Rob looked at me and said I had to do a podcast episode about it. At the time I didn’t think it had anything to do with the podcast but he insisted there were so many parallels. As I thought about it, I realized he was right. So here we are in 2024 and I’m going to tell you about my experience in Costa Rica and how it led to this episode about facing fears and being bold in conquering those fears. Are you ready? I’m excited to share, so let’s go!

The story is about a diving platform on a two-storey catamaran that Rob and I went on. I wanted so badly to jump off that 15 ft high platform into the gorgeous water but fear kept me from doing it. I’m afraid of heights and I would just get paralyzed when I stood on the platform. I couldn’t do it. But when we sat down for lunch it was nagging at me that I hadn’t jumped and I just realized I needed to do it. So I handed my food to Rob, marched over to that platform, and jumped. And friends, the exhilaration of that jump! I felt so powerful. It was so much fun but also I had conquered a profound fear by facing it. The parallel is in our health journeys. I had started intuitive eating before I recently made the shift for good but didn’t approach it right and gave up. I was afraid of giving up the control that diets seemed to give me. This time, though, I faced that fear and approached intuitive eating with my desire for health. I conquered that fear. This episode is all about conquering fears, facing our fear of letting go, facing our own judgement and paralysis. What are you afraid of? How are you going to jump off the boat this year? I want to encourage you to find and face that fear, and then write to me about how you did it and how you feel. Welcome to 2024 and jumping off the boats! 

About Dr. Michelle Tubman

Dr. Michelle Tubman is a physician and health coach. She helps women ditch dieting and thrive at any size. For the longest time, she believed that weight loss was the answer to all her problems. But decades of yo-yo dieting and restriction left her miserable, unhealthy, and exhausted. Now she teaches women how harmful dieting can be and shows them the way to true health and wellness.

As a physician specializing in both emergency and obesity medicine, with additional training in nutrition, eating psychology, and coaching, Michelle can tell you with certainty that dieting is dangerous. Studies associate compromised health more with yo-yo dieting than higher body weight. Yet, everywhere you turn, shrinking your body is hailed as the solution. Women don't need to change. Attitudes do. So let's stop self-shaming, speak out against sizeism, and fiercely champion unconditional self-celebration!

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