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Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance
Noelle is full of fears. She is afraid of all the usual things, like heights and public speaking. And she has many, many other fears, big and small.

But she copes with these. Until one day she doesn’t. She loses her job and all her fears come flooding her brain. Paralyzed.

Then she runs across a quote of Eleanor Roosevelt: “Do one thing every day that scares you.”

So she does. She choose one thing every day that frightens her and she does it.

She gets better and stronger every day.

Note: She is gui
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Lisa of Hopewell
Mar 14, 2014 rated it did not like it
Shelves: read-in-2014
Obnoxious adult takes gap-year to get over indulged fear of everything. Hijacks my idol, Eleanor Roosevelt, as a gimmick and uses her publishing connections to try to make back some of the money she spent. Unless you like listening to someone whine, or enjoy hearing of people breaking into hotel suites they are not registered in to have quickie sex, want to hear about other about-to-be-30-somethings still engaging in their college hook-up culture or like hearing men say they have crows feet on t ...more
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