Go unto the world...: It's all in your head!

Overcoming fear is a skill anyone can learn. The problem is that most people cling to their fears, because it's who they are. These kinds of fears can be spiders, snakes, darkness and NEEDLES! For me fear has held me back from doing so many things.

More recently, when I had decided to go back to school I heard that I may need to update my immunizations. I cried. Going to school was what I really wanted to do and that meant doing something I was scared of. Well, lucky me, I didn't need shots...I dodged a bullet! But now for Haiti it's a requirement to get shots AND take Malaria pills (I'm horrible at swallowing pills). So, not only am I going somewhere I've never been but to get there is all about overcoming my fears!

On Feb. 14th, I was schedule to get my travel immunizations, I could not put it off or just ignore this appointment. My dear friend Gay offered to take me to lunch that day, in order to comfort me and let me know that everything would be OK. As she would say " YOU intimidate those immunizations!" Which worked up until I was sitting in what felt like a tiny room trying to soak in all the info the public health nurse was trying to tell me but all I could think about was the 6 or more shots I would have to get.

I only got 2 shots NOT 6!

Once the time came for us (Christine a.k.a Shu and I) to get our shots, I stepped up and said that I would go first. And I'm so glad I did because when all is said and done my fear was all in my head. I had made it bigger than it really was and "I owned those shots"(another saying from Gay).