Nick The Poet has dealt with a lot of fear in his sobriety and mental health recovery. In this video he shares a poem and four ways to cope with fear and thrive!
Nick the poet shares four ways to handle fear. Meditate, talk to someone about it, take a deep breath and take action. We can learn to thrive with the fear.
Excuse me. Hi, folks. How are you? My name is Nick the poet, and I am a creative coach at Cadre, and I'm actually traveling with the Cadre podcast and videocast fan for the next couple of weeks. I'm currently in Chicago connecting with business owners and wellness specialists and just having creative conversations with them. And it has been awesome so far, but I wanted to share, you know, a little bit of some stuff that I've been working on and concerning fear, and anyone who is human experiences a lot of fear, and certainly in sobriety and mental health recovery, it's something that comes up a lot.
We have to face those fears. And I have a poem about it, and it goes like this. I am afraid. I admit it. I am afraid, and I always have been. And that's okay. Look at all the things I've done anyways. Have you always been afraid to look at all you've been able to do? Being at ease with fear is a full time career, but sometimes the gates swing open and love is released as that fear is decreased. And for a moment, all is well and you have another story to tell. And so we've all faced these fears, and we can, you know, learn to live with the fear.
We can learn to thrive with the fear. And these are four things that I do to handle fear. One is I meditate when I wake up in the morning and sometimes at different points during the day. And this just helps me calm down because I have an excitable nervous system, as a lot of people who struggle with addiction and mental health do. So I just try to meditate and calm down and basically soothe, you know, myself. Today I was a little fearful because I was driving and some busy traffic, and I didn't get much sleep last night.
I'm pretty tired, and that's always a fear for me. And so I was able to meditate and kind of just say, it's okay, Nick. You got enough sleep. You've been tired before. You're gonna make it through this. It's okay. You know, second way that you can work with fear is to talk to somebody about it. A lot of these fears build up so large in our heads, but if we talk to somebody else about it, it takes so much of the pressure off, and we may get solutions that we didn't expect. You know, this could be a therapist, this could be a friend, a confidant.
It could be all kinds of different things, but if we could talk to somebody about it, that's really going to help. Thirdly, do the opposite and take action. So if fear typically, you know, paralyzes you, sometimes we need to work with that fear. If you're afraid to public speak, you know, maybe you need to sign up for a public speaking class. If you're, you know, afraid to get sober, maybe you need to go to some type of support group and just start opening up and talking about it. And finally, I'm going to say, just take a deep breath.
The breath can really help us, you know, when that mind is racing, and there's something about especially taking a few breaths in through the nose, in and out through the nose, it just really calms our mind down. So those are some things that you can do with fear. I hope you're able to use those tools this week. Please do that and reach out to me and let me know what you did, if you used any of those four tools and how it works for you this week. So that's what I have for you today. Thank you so much for tuning in.
I'm nick the poet. This is Cadre, and together we can do this.
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