My Year with Eleanor

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 guided by a wise and caring therapist. Some of my favorite parts of her year long challenge were her meetings with her therapist, and the gently clever ideas he shared with her.

Pretty nice bok, although most of the value for me was “discovering” Eleanor Roosevelt and adding quite a few of the books about her/by her to my “want to read” list

3.5 stars. She felt much younger than 30 at most points, but the experiment itself was very interesting.