Ep 193 A Legacy of Fighting Anxiety and Fear with Christy Boulware

Christy Boulware, author of Nervous Breakthrough: Finding Freedom from Fear and Anxiety in a World that Feeds It, learned from experience that living life on overdrive meant she was headed for distruction. On a family vacation one summer, she experienced her first panic attack and she didn't know what was happening to her. When her dr said, Christy, your body is telling you something's got to change and you need to get to the root of it."

That began a process of recognizing she was living in fear and anxiety and the only way to change was to surrender to God. Surrender and give up her way of doing things, her timing of how things were to get done, and even changing a successful career to help others find freedom from their fears. 

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Some gems:

• Just because you have fear, it doesn't mean you don't have faith.
• We can experience negative emotions; it's what we do with them that leads us to greater peace and less fear.
• Our body provides what I call "smoke alarms" that something needs to change and it's to our peril that we ignore them.
• We underestimate how much understanding God's love connects to our level of fear and anxiety.
• We overcome the snowballing effect of anxiety when we check our thoughts with truth at the top of the hill before it gets too big for us to control.
• I was stuck in self-reliance and addicted to success so I didn't need what God had to offer.

Christy Boulware was stuck in self-reliance and addicted to success so she didn't need what God had to offer. Until her body told her a different story. 

Debilitated by days and weeks of panic attacks, Christy learned that the only way to change and fight her fears and anxieties was through getting to the root of them, and that took surrender.

As a result of her work of faith to get her from fear and panic to using her experiences for the kingdom, Christy began the non-profit: Fearless Unite. See christyboulware.com for additional sources that help us when we are afraid and to keep our minds and hearts on the truth of God’s Word.