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Advice from a Small Town Girl

Facing that fear

I’ve been thinking about fear lately.

Not the deer-in-the-headlights kind of fear. That kind of fear would be something of a relief.

The kind of fear I’ve been thinking about is that sneaky, lurking kind of fear that you often don’t even recognize as fear.

The fear of failure.

The fear of the unknown.

The fear that at last everyone will realize that you’re a fraud.

The fear that the realization of a long-cherished dream will not provide eternal happiness.

The fear that, even if you lost 100 pounds, you’d still be unlovable.

The fear that you’re the only person in the world who has those kind o...

 

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