Table of Contents
Books
Blog Posts
- How to Build a Personal Plan for Facing Your Fears?
- 25 Questions to Ask Yourself When Fear Is Holding You Back
- 50 Fear-Management Exercises That Actually Help
- How to Stop Letting Fear Make Your Decisions?
- How to Take Action Even When You Feel Afraid?
- How to Face Your Fears Without Overwhelming Yourself?
- How to Challenge Fear-Based Thoughts?
- How to Calm Yourself When Fear Takes Over?
- How to Identify What You’re Really Afraid Of?
- 42 Signs Fear Is Controlling Your Life
- Healthy Fear vs. Unhealthy Fear: What’s the Difference?
- The Psychology Behind Fear
Apps for Managing Fear
- DARE: Panic & Anxiety Relief
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Focuses on approaching rather than constantly escaping anxiety-provoking situations. It includes guided exercises for fears involving driving, flying, doctors, public speaking, health anxiety, intrusive thoughts, panic, and other situations people commonly avoid.
Fear and Anxiety Podcasts
- Disordered: Anxiety Help — Joshua Fletcher & Drew Linsalata
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An evidence-informed anxiety recovery podcast with a strong focus on avoidance, exposure, fearful thinking, panic, and learning to function even when fear is present. Episodes frequently challenge the idea that you must feel safe or confident before doing something difficult. - Fear Less — Zack Schafer
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Focuses specifically on fear, anxiety, courage, and exposure. The host speaks with clinicians, researchers, educators, and people with lived experience about understanding fear and developing practical skills for facing it.
Specific Fear Podcast Episodes
- From Insight to Action: How to Face the Fear You Keep Avoiding — Being Well
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A particularly practical episode about turning awareness into action. It explains how to identify the prediction behind avoidance, create manageable experiments to test that prediction, and learn from what actually happens instead of continuing to assume the feared outcome will occur. - How to Stop Avoiding Your Life — Teach Me How To Adult
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Covers the fear-avoidance cycle, difficult conversations, uncertainty, gradual exposure, fear ladders, and the ways avoidance can slowly make your life smaller.
TED & TEDx Talks About Fear
- Why You Should Define Your Fears Instead of Your Goals — Tim Ferriss
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Introduces “fear-setting,” an exercise for writing down exactly what you are afraid might happen, how you could prevent or repair possible problems, and what avoiding action may cost you. Particularly useful when fear is keeping you stuck on a decision. - What Fear Can Teach Us — Karen Thompson Walker
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Explores fear as a form of future storytelling. Walker shows how vivid possibilities can feel more convincing than likely ones and encourages examining fears based on evidence and probability rather than simply reacting to the scariest imagined outcome. - Smash Fear, Learn Anything — Tim Ferriss
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Uses real examples to show how questioning worst-case predictions and deliberately entering uncomfortable situations can make intimidating experiences more manageable.
