A Smart Girl's Guide: Worry. Nancy Holyoke

promise yourself to stand up

      and fight.

      Start pushing back.

      Once you’re aware of how worry

       works, you can push back against it.

      Every time you refuse to let a worry

      dictate what you do, it loses some

      of its power.

      What

      if . . . ?

      I feel scared.

      But I won’t let

      fears push me

      around.

      Just saying

      that makes me

      feel better!

      I’m in

      charge of

      what I do.

      I have

      a plan and

      will do my

      best.

      Things

      don’t seem so

      bad now. What

      if I keep at it?

      Keep at it.

      Taming worry is a skill. You

      can master it just like you

      learned to ride a bike, multiply

      numbers, and whistle. It won’t