04/12/2025
STEP IN, TREMBLING
Fear will come.
Doubts will come.
The old voices will whisper, “Give up. You’re not ready. You’re a fraud. You should run.”
This is not failure.
This is life moving through you – your nervous system reaching for safety in the only way it knows how. Everyone feels it. Everyone.
The way through isn’t in waiting for fear and doubt to leave, or in trying to silence the voices of shame.
The way through is in taking the step anyway.
When you step – when you show up, when you take the action, messy, trembling, uncertain, full of doubt and fear – the step itself is the medicine.
The doing is the surrender.
The acting is the relief.
And in that moment of presence-infused action, the weight of indecision lifts.
The stagnation softens.
The nervous system begins to find new ground.
Resistance quiets, and life flows forward.
Each time you step in – even with “I can’t do this” screaming in your ears – your brain rewires a little more toward trust, presence, courage and love.
Over time, the old circuitry of fear and anxiety weakens.
And a new circuitry is born: one of devotion, of showing up for life, of being carried in the doing itself.
So don’t wait for perfection.
Don’t wait for readiness.
Step in.
Step in scared.
Step in unready.
Step in trembling.
But step in.
Let the step itself carry you.
That is where the healing lives:
When you want to run back – but you take the step forward anyway.
From presence.
From love.
– Jeff Foster
