One way to overcome fear is to create a personal narrative based on your own family history.  By reminding yourself of the struggles and hardships your own ancestors overcame, you can reinforce your own inner strength.  Remind yourself of their courage and be brave.

In just the past hundred years members of my family have been: exceedingly wealthy, destitute refugees dying of hunger, hacked apart by sword wielding terrorists, and tossed into prison during the Cultural Revolution.

But they had courage.

My paternal grandfather brought a lawsuit on behalf of women and children interred in a concentration camp.  My father lay down on the railroad tracks in front on an oncoming military troop train.  My mother fled Afghanistan in a taxi, chased by men shooting at her.  She went on to organize labor unions in Harlem in the early Fifties.

I am descended from those who survived

I am a survivor.

We all are.