Leaning Into Fear in 2020

Marguerite Duras wrote in her novel that “the art of seeing has to be learned.” That’s true for bravery, too.

This is my year of leaning in or rather it’s my life of leaning in, of going right at the things that I’m most afraid of.

I grew up in a house where fear was a normal state of being. My mom was afraid of everything, closed spaces, open spaces, heights, deep water, birds, spiders, dead…