Anti-Gravity: From Fear of Heights to a Love of Flight

For a long time, I thought I was afraid of heights.

My legs would tense near ledges, my breath would catch on balconies, and just the thought of a free fall made my stomach turn. I used to say, “Nah, that’s not for me.” But deep down, it wasn’t the height I feared—it was the drop. The free fall. That moment when your body loses its bearings and gravity takes control.

But something in me was still curious. Drawn to the sky. I didn’t want to be stuck on the ground just because fear told me I should be.

So one day, I made the jump. Literally. Out of s perfectly good plane.

The first time I went skydiving changed everything. I signed the waiver, suited up, and tried not to overthink it. As we climbed altitude, my fear didn’t go away—but something else started rising alongside it. A sense of surrender. A sense of why not?

When we jumped, everything I thought I knew about fear and flight fell away with the wind. I wasn’t afraid. I was flying. It didn’t feel like falling—it felt like freedom. A kind I’d never known before. And when my feet finally touched the ground again, something in me shifted.

I didn’t die. And suddenly, everything felt possible.

That skydive became the catalyst for a new chapter. If I could do that… what else could I do?

So I started saying yes more. Yes to bungee jumping off a platform that made my knees wobble. Yes to hang gliding in Brazil, arms outstretched above one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world.Yes to paragliding, cliff diving, zip-lining—anything that gave me that feeling of freedom, that anti-gravity high.

I started chasing that sensation—not just the thrill, but the clarity that comes when you let go of fear and just trust.

Somewhere along the way, I realized: I was never really afraid of heights. I was afraid of falling short. Of missing out. Of letting fear decide the shape of my life.

But once I changed my mindset from “What if I fall?” to “What if I fly?”—the sky stopped being the limit.It became the invitation.