SharperMind Training is holding a benefit for Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.

Here’s how it works:

I’m offering donation-based 1-on-1 coaching sessions on Saturday, October 26th. There are 7 sessions available, starting any hour between 10 and 5pm, Eastern Time.

***This is open to all—past clients, current clients, and not-yet clients!***

All you have to do is make a donation of any amount to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, schedule a session, and then email me a copy of your donation receipt. That’s it!

You’ll get an email confirming the time of your session with a zoom code for you to join.

If you want to know a little more about how I decided to do this, see below.

When Fear Leads To Inaction

When I get scared, I get stuck. 

I’ve had it happen over and over—without even realizing it, I’ll listen to that little voice that tells me how bad it would be if something went wrong, if I made a mistake, if I took action and it somehow led to a bad result. Sometimes it’s not even a bad result I’m afraid of, but of whatever I do not being enough.

This happens to me far more often than I’d like, and I’ve seen it countless times in others, especially in fencing. It’s something many clients talk to me about—they might say “I’m scared to attack” or “I know the right action to do, I just can’t get myself to DO it” or simply “I can’t commit.”

I think it comes back to the same thing—all the possible actions seem wrong, because none of them are certain to succeed. That potential failure looms large, and that feels like danger. In response, the nervous system starts to shut down, saying ‘at least don’t make it worse’

As you can imagine—or as you’ve experienced, if you’re a fencer yourself—that doesn’t work out great. Eventually the opponent will catch on that you’re not a threat, become more bold in their own attacks, and score a touch themselves. Or, if you do push past the hesitancy, the feeling of being frozen in place, you’ll often find your attack is so slow, the opponent easily avoids it.

In any case, the outcome you were so afraid of took place—in spite of all that effort not to make a mistake, or perhaps more accurately, because of it. 

This was essentially how I’ve felt witnessing the devestation in Palestine. Along with the helpless of being witness to destruction I can do nothing about, I was scared that anything I would do would be wrong, or not enough.

I’ve recently broken out of that hesitation, and I’m holding a day of donation-based coaching sessions on Saturday, October 26th.

With a donation of any amount to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, you can sign up for a coaching session.

Just sign up for a session, donate to PCRF, email me your donation receipt, and you’re good to go!