Brace yourself. As you navigate the hills and valleys of your separation and divorce fear will invariably rear its ugly head. Fear of change. Fear of confrontation. Fear of failure. Here is some advice on what you can do to douse your fears before they extinguish your chances of moving on:
12 Quotes About Fear
There are four ways you can handle fear. You can go over it, under it, or around it. But if you are ever to put fear behind you, you must walk straight through it. Once you put fear behind you. Leave it there. — Donna Favors
Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. — Jerry Gille
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. — Dale Carnegie
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind. — Dale Carnegie
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot. – Eleanor Roosevelt
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they get the busy signal – and soon they’ll forget my number. – Edith Armstrong
Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. – Brendan Francis
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. – Orison Swett Marden
Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. – Author Unknown
March On. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path. – Kahlil Gibran
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. — Jim Morrison
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. — Sun Tzu
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. — Marie Curie
This is an excerpt from What to Divorce When You are Divorcing. You can download a copy below:
What to Divorce When You are Divorcing
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