Show Notes

🎯 Summary

Have you ever caught yourself spinning in overthinking, shrinking in shame, or bulldozing your way through business just to feel in control? In this episode, we’re uncovering the 3 places fear hides—your head, heart, and gut—and how to spot your patterns so you can take back the lead. This is your freedom starting point.

📝 Takeaways

1. Fear doesn’t always look like fear—it hides in your thinking, feeling, and doing.
2. Your default fear response will likely be fight, flight, or freeze—and each shows up uniquely in your head, heart, or gut.
3. You are divinely wired with three “brains”—head, heart, and gut—that are designed to work together through courage, not fear.
4. The vagus nerve connects all three, but fear distorts their communication.
5. God’s blueprint of “threes” (like spirit, soul, body) is echoed in how He designed you to function with wisdom, emotion, and action.
6. When fear leads, it produces loops (head), spirals (heart), and stuckness or hustle (gut).
7. You can’t change what you don’t name—awareness unlocks your courageous action.

🎙️ Sound Bites

• “Fear is a master of disguise—it hides in overthinking, people-pleasing, and hustle.”
• “You were never designed to be led by fear. You were designed for courage.”
• “When you can name the fear, you can change the fear.”
• “Father didn’t give you a monkey brain—He gave you a masterpiece mind wired for freedom.”

💪 Courageous Action

Use the Fear Tracker this week:

1. Pause when fear shows up.
2. Ask yourself:
3. • Is this fight, flight, or freeze?
   • Is the fear landing in my head (thoughts), heart (feelings), or gut (actions or inaction)?
4. Journal what you discover.
5. Go to Father and ask:
   “What truth do You want me to believe instead?”
6. Declare daily:
   “Fear does not lead me. I am designed for courage.”

⏱️ Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Face the Fear and Find the Freedom

02:29 I was a bird in a cage with the door open too afraid to fly out

06:01 The Three Major Fear Responses

08:51 Fear and Our Three Brains

11:50 Identifying Fear Patterns

15:31 The Head: Our Thinking Brain

17:46 The Heart: Our Feeling Brain

20:54 The Gut: Our Action Brain

25:07 Which Brain is dominant?

26:13 Recapping the three brains and fear responses

28:11 Courageous Action Steps

29:44 Conclusion and Next Steps

Who am I?

Heather Bunch – The Courageous Coach

Heather is a certified life and Enneagram coach, speaker and author who helps women of faith close the gap between their dreams and reality by Live Fearlessly Free. Now they can stop hiding, show up fully themselves and fulfill their God-given purpose–courageously.

Heather also uses her ninja writing skills to help other coaches, speakers, and authors get their ideas out of their heads into their signature systems and books so they can create the income and income they dream about.

Heather’s book is available on Amazon––Hello, Courageous! The Gal’s Guide to Delight, Discover, and Direct Your Divine Life by Heather Bunch: https://hellocourageous.com/hcbook

Or get it on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP3BZ7ZP

Beat Procrastination cheat sheet: https://www.heatherbunch.com/beatit

You can find Heather at https://www.heatherbunch.com.

Or email her at hello@heatherbunch.com