E135: How Fear of Failure Is Holding You Back in Recovery

Failure doesn't feel good. Or at least, it doesn't until you change the way you think about it. Too often, people put so much time and energy into avoiding experiencing failure that they fail to move forward at all. That can be said for life in general, but it's especially true in recovery - when fear of failure holds you back from even trying to quit, and then keeps holding you back from making the other changes that need to be made, too.

In this podcast episode, we're chatting with Katie (recovery coach for Peer180 RCO), Matt (host of Till The Wheels Fall Off podcast), and Elizabeth (host of Intelligence on the Rocks podcast) to talk about how fear of failure has shown up in our sobriety journeys, and how we've learned not just to face the fear, but embrace it.

Key points in this episode:

• Redefining success in order to redefine failure
• Turning failure into opportunities for growth that you can be proud of
• The danger in not telling anyone your goals in an attempt to hide any failure that might come
• Big fears - like failing our children
• 2 kinds of failure - the useful kind, and the not so useful kind
• When fear of failure shows up as procrastination
• Is it fear of failure, or fear of what people will think?
• Developing shame resilience
• The danger of keeping the bar so low that you can never fail

Learn more about our guests and find the full show notes for this episode at 

https://throughtheglassrecovery.com/podcast/fear-of-failure/

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Whichever step you take, just know this—you’re not failing, you’re learning. And you’re not alone in it.