OKAY FINE WHATEVER: The Year I Went From Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things

For most of her life, Hameister lived in a state of near-constant dread and anxiety. Until, in her mid-forties, she decided to fight back against her debilitating anxieties by spending a year doing little things that scared her, things that the average person might consider doing for a half second before deciding: "nope."