New Dawn Wellness with Oren Raz

Fear vs Anxiety: Don't Let Worry Dictate Your Life - Free Online Conversation
2025-12-16 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Fear vs Anxiety: Don’t Let Worry Dictate Your Life
We often confuse fear and anxiety, but understanding their distinct nature is essential for taking back control of our lives. Fear responds to immediate, real threats—a protective mechanism that activates when danger is present and subsides once it passes. Anxiety, however, is fear’s persistent shadow, living in the future through endless “what ifs” that keep our nervous system activated even when we’re physically safe.
When anxiety becomes chronic, it slowly dismantles our daily existence. We avoid opportunities, stay in unfulfilling situations, and create increasingly smaller worlds where we feel protected. Yet this safety is illusory—we’re not protecting ourselves but imprisoning ourselves. Personal growth requires the vulnerability and risk that anxiety convinces us to avoid.
The physical toll is equally damaging. Since our bodies cannot distinguish between real and imagined threats, constant worry keeps stress systems perpetually activated, leading to exhaustion, concentration difficulties, sleep problems, and numerous physical symptoms. Most insidiously, anxiety causes us to miss our own lives—we’re so consumed by tomorrow’s potential disasters that we cannot be present for today’s reality.
But there’s hope. You can change your relationship with uncertainty by learning to distinguish real danger from anxiety’s false alarms. Practice sitting with discomfort rather than avoiding it, since growth happens at your comfort zone’s edge. Ground yourself in the present moment through breath and body awareness, reclaiming your attention from anxiety’s grip.
Consider seeking support through therapy, coaching, or community. Healing happens in connection with others. Your life is waiting beyond worry—it’s time to step toward it.

Free Conversation – Everyone is welcome
December 16, 6 PM PT, 9 PM EST
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WORKSHOP: How negative past experiences can affect your mental health today
2026-01-06 18:00 - 19:30
A Journey Into Understanding: How Your Past Shapes Your Present
Discover how early experiences shape your adult life and learn proven self-regulation, co-regulation, and healing techniques to break free from patterns of anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles in this transformative 90-minute journey to lasting well-being.
Picture yourself settling into a quiet space on a January evening, giving yourself permission to simply be. This isn’t just another workshop—it’s an invitation to witness the invisible threads connecting your earliest experiences to the challenges you face today.
Over 90 minutes, you’ll move through a series of gentle explorations guided by Oren Raz, who understands that trauma doesn’t announce itself with fanfare. Sometimes it whispers through anxiety that feels oddly familiar. Sometimes it shows up as patterns in relationships you can’t quite explain. Sometimes it lives in your body as tension you’ve carried so long you forgot it wasn’t always there.
Who Should Attend?
This workshop welcomes both those on their own healing journey and healers who walk alongside others—therapists, counselors, and practitioners working with clients navigating early trauma. Whether you’re
recognizing your own patterns or deepening your capacity to hold space for others, this experience offers profound insights into how the brain processes and stores early experiences.
What to Expect
Through brief presentations on interpersonal neurobiology and guided reflective exercises, you’ll learn to recognize how early trauma manifests in adult life—in depression, anxiety, relationship struggles, and that persistent sense that something isn’t quite right. You’ll discover practical tools for self-regulation and the transformative power of co-regulation, understanding how “one heart molds the other” through neuroplasticity.
During the workshop, you might feel tender. Reflective. Perhaps surprised by what surfaces when you give yourself permission to look gently at your own story. Afterwards, you’ll leave with compassionate self-awareness and concrete practices—not just understanding what happened, but how to support healing, whether for yourself or those you serve.
This is healing work done with gentleness, not force. With curiosity, not judgment.
January 6, 2026, 6 to 7:30 pm PST
$197 / Person
Seating is limited so please RSVP soon.
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Fear & Anxiety: Don't Let Worry Dictate Your Life
2026-02-10 18:00 - 19:00
Your life is waiting beyond the worry. Join us to learn how to tell real danger from anxiety’s false alarms and find your peace.
Please join us for a candid discussion on navigating fear and anxiety without letting them control your life. It’s time to reclaim your peace of mind.
During this casual conversation you will learn how to understand the difference between fear and anxiety which is crucial for reclaiming your life. Fear responds to immediate, real threats and subsides once danger passes. Anxiety is fear’s persistent shadow—the endless “what ifs” that keep your nervous system activated even when you’re safe.
In this session, you’ll learn:

The difference between fear and anxiety and how it debilitates our lives
How it affects our personal growth – from avoiding opportunities to missing present moments
How to stop letting fear dictate your life – practical strategies to distinguish real danger from anxiety’s false alarms

Chronic worry keeps our stress response constantly activated, causing exhaustion and physical symptoms. But you can change your relationship with uncertainty. Learn to sit with discomfort, ground yourself in the present moment, and discover that your life is waiting beyond worry.
