Subtle Fears That Keep You Small

I’ve worked with a lot of beautiful souls over the years, and if there’s one thing I’ve seen again and again, it’s this: fear is woven into the human experience.

You're in line to reincarnate onto Earth? Hold up while we install the fear program.

Kidding—kind of.

The truth is, fear isn’t just a personal challenge. It’s a collective imprint. A program that has been running for lifetimes, reinforced through planetary conditioning, ancestral trauma, and the stories we’ve been told about what is and isn’t possible.

For many lightworkers, starseeds, and those awakening to their multidimensional nature, fear runs even deeper. It’s not just about the fear of failure or rejection in this lifetime—it’s the echoes of past lifetimes where standing in your power was dangerous, where speaking your truth led to exile, where your magic was misunderstood.

The tricky part? Most of these fears don’t show up as outright terror. If they did, they’d be easy to recognize. Instead, they operate in the background, subtly shaping your decisions, dimming your light, and keeping you playing small 🙈

The Subtle Fears That Hold You Back

Fear comes in all shapes and sizes. Some fears are obvious—the ones that make your heart race and your breath hitch. But the ones that do the most damage? They’re the quiet ones.

👉 The hesitation before speaking your truth.
👉 The avoidance of your deepest desires.
👉 The doubt that whispers, Who are you to do this?
👉 The overwhelm that makes you put your gifts on hold.
👉 The exhaustion from absorbing others’ emotions but feeling guilty setting boundaries.

These are the fears that slip by unnoticed. The ones we explain away, minimize, or ignore.

And yet, they silently shape our lives:

✨ They keep us from taking the next step in our spiritual evolution.
💫 They make us question our intuitive nudges.
✨ They convince us that we need one more course before we’re ready.
💫 They create resistance just as we start stepping into our soul’s calling.

If any of this feels familiar, know this: it’s not just resistance. It’s a signal.

Because fear doesn’t always mean stop. Sometimes, it means expand. 

Fear as a Sign of Expansion

What if your fear wasn’t a warning sign, but an initiation?

What if the very thing you’re afraid to step into is exactly what your soul is calling you toward?

For lightworkers and wayshowers, fear often arises at the threshold of transformation. It’s not there to block you—it’s there to test your readiness. To ask: Will you choose expansion over safety? Will you trust what you know? Will you remember who you are? 🔥

This is why fear doesn’t dissolve on its own. Because its job is to challenge you—to push you beyond the limitations that have kept you small.

The moment you stop running from it… is the moment it begins to lose its power.

What’s Beneath the Fear?

Here’s a truth:

Fear isn’t just an emotion. It’s a story.

It’s a story based on past experiences, societal conditioning, and beliefs that were never yours to begin with. The emotions that come with it are real—but the story itself? It’s optional.

🌿 What if the belief that you’re not good enough isn’t actually true?
🌿 What if the fear of being seen is just an old survival pattern, no longer relevant?
🌿 What if the doubt about your gifts is simply a story you’ve outgrown?

When you start to see these fears for what they are—outdated programs, past-life echoes, ancestral imprints—you reclaim your power.

And that’s where the shift happens.

Because when you stop believing the old story, you start writing a new one.

You Have a Choice

You can keep living inside the limitations of fear, letting it dictate how far you go, how visible you allow yourself to be, how deeply you step into your gifts.

Or you can decide—right now—that fear will no longer lead.

🌟 That you will move forward, even when it feels uncomfortable.
🌟 That you will trust what is calling you, even if you don’t have all the answers yet.
🌟 That you will choose expansion over contraction, again and again.

There is so much waiting for you on the other side of fear 🔥

If this resonates and you’re ready to move beyond the fear that's holding you back, my free guide, Moving Through Fear, offers somatic and energetic practices to support you as you reconnect with your light. 

Get the guide HERE.

xo, Mitzi