Listen in as Ty Crandall asks David, “How do we become more courageous, more daring?”
David’s story is one of courage and hope. Offering his insights, he shares his journey as an experimental health program recipient. From thinking he would die due to a reaction, to having an epiphany that saw him get more resourceful and reach out for support. David provides insights about courage and fear, along with the moment when he realized that fear CAN’T stop you from doing what you want.
You have the power to transform fear into something more powerful.
– David Wood
Sharing a personal story is courageous in itself… walk beside David as he invites you into his world with what he learned, including:
- You have the power to transform fear into something more powerful. When you acknowledge and welcome your fears, they pass through quickly instead of morphing into something bigger.
- Acknowledging there may be negative consequences when taking a step into the unknown and how to harness it.
- Knowing that you ALWAYS have a choice and that you are in control. You can proceed, or you can stop.
- Why it’s important to have a support structure to help push you through obstacles.
- How having a framework can help alleviate the fear and make it easier to brave the ‘unknown’.
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– TRANSCRIPT –
Ty Crandall: [00:00:00] You know, what you’re talking about takes a lot of courage. How do we do that? How do we become more courageous, more daring?
David Wood: [00:00:05] Wow. Huh! My, so I just scan my life and I just thought about last Friday. We’re only at, I think we’re, what are we? We’re Tuesday now. So Friday I’m doing a treatment program here in Boulder where they do therapy for anxiety and depression.
But firstly, they inject you with an anesthetic. It’s an experimental program, but they’re getting amazing results. It’s called ketamine treatment. And my first experience was beautiful. My second experience was terrifying. I had a reaction, I think I had a near panic attack while under the anesthetic.
So my brain, I didn’t even have all my faculties. I’m sitting there, the therapist is there. There’s no machine hooked up to me and my heart’s pounding and I’m worried that I’m having an allergic reaction. It was horrible. It was disorienting. And I’m like, am I going to die? And no one’s even, they’re not even going to know about it.
So that was an unpleasant experience. And I’m booked in for six sessions. So to your question, how do I find the courage to go back for session number three, knowing that I might have a, you know, I might have an allergic reaction or a panic attack or something like that. And I did a number of things.
One is I talked to a lot of people about it. Right? Talk to a coach is one thing that you can do. I talked to my therapist about it. I said, okay. I’m not willing to go and have another session until we’ve spoken. I need help. I need support. I gotta reframe this. Then I did some research. I looked at the studies, I got some information about it.
I needed to know, is this a bad decision for my body or is this part of life? Is this part of what to expect? And what I decided in the end was, this is why I’m going to it. I want I’m willing to confront this. Also we looked at what can I do to make it more comfortable next time? Therapists can hold my feet.
Didn’t know that. I can say, Hey, slow down the infusion. Stop the drip. Didn’t know I could do that. So there are a whole bunch of things that I could do to tone it down if I need to. And I decided David, this is a good move. I am willing to be afraid, and that would be the biggest piece of it. I’m willing to be afraid.
I’m willing to have a panic attack and I can deal with it. I’ve got the resources. And so where are we? We’re Tuesday. Yesterday, I went in and I had my third session and I was fully ready to be afraid. And Ty. The most amazing thing happened. I didn’t get afraid, maybe little shadows of it, but I was welcoming like, okay, here it goes.
I heard an ambulance siren in the first 10 minutes. Started triggering something. I said, all right, let’s welcome this. And then it just passed. And I had the most profound experience of my life yesterday. All because I was willing to be afraid. Now I want to give a caveat to listeners. You don’t have to do anything you’re afraid of mostly in life.
You don’t have to do it. I was at choice. I could have said no, I’m going to stop the program now. But I went and got the resources I need. Got to the point where I was willing to ride my edge and go into it. And that’s my invitation. If there’s something you’re afraid of, something you want to do in business,
it might be asking a celebrity for an endorsement. It might be confronting an employee who’s constantly late. It might be making a confession to somebody just to tell the truth. If you notice some fear around it, I hope some of the things I’ve mentioned today might give you some more courage. To go into it and say, Hey, I’m willing to be afraid anyway, because this is right for me.
And this is right for the world. And if you’re not, if it’s too scary for you, Hey, most things you don’t actually have to do. It’ll likely be there when, and if at some point in life you feel resourced enough to go and do it again. I come back to coaching. I think a coach or a therapist can help you find a way.
Find a framework, so it’s not so scary. Just the way I was able to do it this week.
