In this episode, Kate Swoboda and I discuss the four main fear-based patterns that we all have, how to identify them, and how to disrupt them so we can live a more courageous life. Kate Swoboda is creator of YourCourageousLife.com, Director of the Courageous Living Coach Certification, and author of The Courage Habit: How to Accept Your Fears, Release the Past, and Live Your Courageous Life. She helps individuals, teams, and companies see where old, fear-based habits have kept people stuck or started to limit what’s possible for an organization, and then start creating more courageous lives by getting into “the courage habit,” a four-part process for behavioral and organizational change. Kate has appeared in MindBodyGreen, Entrepreneur, USA Today, Forbes, Lifetime Moms, The Intelligent Optimist, Business Insider, and more, and her website Your Courageous Life was named a top-50 blog for happiness by Greatist. She’s spoken at conferences and seminars on the topic of courage as it relates to personal development, releasing overwhelm, business and marketing, money mindset, wellness, increasing emotional resilience, and healthy goal-setting using habit-formation techniques. In this episode, we discuss: ·      How courage can look differently for all of us and that it doesn’t always live in big, flashy, actions. ·      Our tendency to see our patterns as part of our identity vs. learned behavior. ·      The cue-routine-reward loop and how it can build fear-based habits. ·      Which part of the loop we need to change in order to change our habits. ·      How to use discernment to identify which habit loops are out of integrity with who we are. ·      The four main fear routines – perfectionism, people pleasing, pessimism, and self-sabotage. ·      Different ways we can access the body and be present to help us disrupt a routine. ·      What it means to listen without attachment. ·      The importance of recognizing and releasing our emotions so we can get to clear thinking. ·      How involving other people in our life is more courageous than doing it on your own. ·      And finally, the importance of realizing discomfort won’t kill you. You can find and follow Kate here: YourCourageousLife.com TeamCLCC.com Instagram: @katecourageous Facebook: @YourCourageousLife Twitter: @KateCourageous Her book - The Courage Habit: How to Accept Your Fears, Release the Past, and Live Your Courageous Life SHOP CLEAN products with DISCOUNTS in my SHOP! Please SUBSCRIBE, SHARE, RATE, and REVIEW the podcast! Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheBetterYouPodcast or Facebook @TheBetterYouPodcast. And you can email the podcast at [email protected] Follow me on all the socials: Instagram @kaciemain_writes, Facebook @kaciemain.write, or Twitter @kaciemain_write. Find my book – I Gave Up Men for Lent, the story of a jaded, hopelessly romantic, health-conscious party girl’s search for meaning – on Amazon, Kindle, and Audible. And for everything else you want to know about me, visit my website at www.kaciemain.com     Some links are Affiliate links.