Tara Mohr

So the cultural reason is because if you're a woman or you are in any kind of underrepresented identity, when you are coming into power, when you are coming into visibility, you know your society might really take you down for that.

Or you just know that's new.

In my lineage, this is new, what I'm doing right now.

So that's kind of the cultural reason.

Spiritually, I would say when we're stepping into our purpose...

when we're following a calling, when we're using our true gifts, when we're being in our full glory, our ego is basically terrified, even though that's the step our soul wants to take.

And a lot of fear comes from the ego.

And so you could think about this kind of expansive impulse of your soul and this contractive impulse of your ego.

And so when we're really like stepping through

the gates that we all can step into, into more in our lives, that is very scary.

Yeah, for the kind of small self in us.

What does moving forward while still feeling afraid actually look like?

Almost like being on like an actual physical roller coaster, that it's exhilaration.

There's this word I really like.

It's a term from ancient Hebrew.

So this is like 3000 years, people have been talking about this term and it's a term for fear.

That term is Yira.

Yira.

And Yira has three definitions.

So the feeling you feel when you are inhabiting a larger space than you're used to.