If you can narrow the fear into a more specific thing, it's easier to know how to meet it.

One way is to name it and then laugh scornfully at the fear.

"I'm scared that xxxxxx. Ha Hah! HAH!, fear, I'm bigger'n you!"

Maxine: Wake every morning as if Satan says, when he hears your feet hit the floor, "Oh NO! She's AWAKE!"

I'll try to remember to print the cartoon where she sez that, for ya.

~Susan