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Susan Jeffers - Feel The Fear And Beyond (Complete)

YA Jeffers discusses the crippling effects of fear in her personal life and explains how she formulated a course of action for conquering it. 
Her answers are simple, her course of action difficult only because it requires courage. She explains how fear is based on the uncertainty of change 
and the lack of positive self image. She avoids psychological lingo, and includes many case studies about careers and changes in personal lifeboth of 
which are beginning to cause anxiety in many teens. 
Her message is reassuring: choices are not opportunities to make mistakes, but valid paths to growth, whichever path we take. 
She addresses the fundamental cause of fearthe belief that ``I can't handle it!'' 
Feel the Fear is an important book, for while some young people are more crippled by insecurity that others, many do believe that the path to adulthood 
is fraught with dangers. 
Fear is doubtlessly a handicap with which they must learn to cope. Jennifer John Reavis, Episcopal High School, Bellaire