When Fear Runs Your Life—Even When You’re Safe
A physician’s framework for understanding why modern fear feels real, how it quietly derails relationships, careers, and wellbeing, and what actually restores clarity and trust.
Fear Is a Liar: From Fight or Flight
to Clarity, Peace, and Trust
If fear has ever shaped your choices more than you realized, these opening chapters will help you see it clearly.
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About The Book
Every day, people carry a level of tension, worry, and internal pressure that far exceeds the actual risks in their lives. This book explains why fear becomes reflexive—and how we can change that pattern to reclaim freedom and trust.
What You’ll Learn
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Why your brain mistakes possibility for danger—and how that quietly increases anxiety
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How to interrupt fear reflexes in real time, before they drive your behavior
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Why calm and clarity aren’t just feelings—they’re learnable skills
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How reactive patterns quietly shape life outcomes, for better or worse
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How to build trust without direct proof
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Why fear-driven control undermines trust—and how understanding restores it
The Core
Idea
Two voices. One choice.
The Automatic Brain (AB)
Primitive, reactive, survival-driven
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Treats possibility as probability
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Drives anxiety, control, conflict, and insecurity
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Operates instantly and without context
Much of what goes wrong in our lives happens when fear takes the lead.
But there is another voice.
The Mind
Reflective, steady, fair.
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Distinguishes danger from discomfort.
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Aligns with clarity, trust, and perspective.
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Responds rather than reacts.
Inside the Book
Part II:
The Mind
What restores clarity, peace, and trust
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Hearing the Mind
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Coincidence and the Bigger Picture
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Integrity, Courage, Forgiveness
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Trust and Love
Part I:
The Automatic Brain
Why fear feels real—even when it isn’t
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The One-Up Danger
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The Illusion of Control
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Fake News by Your Brain
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The Fear Cycle
About
Dr. Charles F. Glassman
Charles F. Glassman, MD, is a physician and author who has spent more than three decades observing how fear shapes behavior, health, and identity—often without people realizing it. Through medicine, long-term patient relationships, and broader systems-level work, he began to notice a consistent pattern: much of what people experience as anxiety, control, or self-sabotage is driven by a primitive survival reflex rather than true danger.
One of the first physicians in the United States to establish a concierge medical practice, Dr. Glassman now consults in longevity research and writes and speaks under the CoachMD platform.
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For Media
For more than thirty years, Dr. Charles F. Glassman has explored a question at the center of modern anxiety: why ordinary circumstances can feel threatening even when no real danger is present. Fear Is a Liar distills insights from medicine, human behavior, and long-term clinical observation into a clear framework for understanding fear—and for moving beyond reflexive reactions toward clarity and trust.
Additional background, context, and editorial information are available below.
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Receive two opening chapters from Fear Is a Liar before the book is released. These chapters introduce the core framework—why fear often arises when nothing is actually wrong—and how understanding that mechanism begins to loosen its hold.
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