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As I prepare to release my book, I find myself standing at a familiar edge — part excitement, part pride, and a whole lot of anxiety. In this episode, I speak openly about what happens when something meaningful is about to be seen, and why the nervous system often experiences visibility not as success, but as risk. Fear, self-criticism, and imposter syndrome don’t appear because something is wrong — they appear because the body remembers what visibility once cost.This is a conversation about trauma that accumulates quietly over time, the kind that teaches us to minimize ourselves, doubt our knowing, and retreat just as we approach something that matters. I reflect on what it means to be both a healer and a human, to have tools and language while still carrying a nervous system shaped by survival. With honesty and compassion, I explore how fear can be understood not as a signal to stop, but as an invitation to slow down and include the parts of us that learned to stay safe by staying small.This episode is for helpers, clinicians, creatives, and anyone standing at a threshold — launching something, naming something, or becoming more visible — and wondering if they’re allowed to move forward without abandoning themselves. You don’t have to outrun fear or defeat it. You just don’t have to let it drive.