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Fear Will Make You Hurt Yourself

Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

Blog Series: Teaching On The Pulse
May 01, 2025
Tags: critical thinking | courageous teaching | leadership in crisis | higher education challenges | fear and silence

Fear is the anxiety that you are about to lose something you love, need, have rightfully earned or deserve. Fear will make you hurt yourself, silence yourself, edit yourself in ways that contradict or disavow your own best pursuits. Since we teach who we are, showing up afraid will only ...

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