{"id":1145,"date":"2009-12-14T14:15:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T14:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2009\/12\/the-year-in-review-feel-the-fear-and-sob-on-stage-anyway.html"},"modified":"2009-12-14T14:15:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T14:15:26","slug":"the-year-in-review-feel-the-fear-and-sob-on-stage-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2009\/12\/the-year-in-review-feel-the-fear-and-sob-on-stage-anyway.html","title":{"rendered":"The Year In Review: Feel The Fear And Sob On Stage Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most viscerally terrifying experience that I had this year: reading <a href=\"http:\/\/herbadmother.com\/2008\/08\/lost-boy\/\">&#8216;Lost Boy&#8217;<\/a> for BlogHer&#8217;s Community Keynote. It was awesome and wonderful and all those things that one expects from <i>feeling one&#8217;s fear and doing it anyway<\/i>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2009\/08\/a-story-bridges-a-distance.html\">I was as terrified as I have ever been in my life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <embed src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/AYGV5zoC\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\"><\/p>\n<p>Mine is near the end, so if you don&#8217;t want to watch the whole thing, you&#8217;ll have to forward to about 15 minutes shy of the end. Or you could just read the original post here, and imagine me sobbing my way through it.<\/p>\n<p>More than one person &#8211; more than twenty people &#8211; said to me after the fact, <em>that must have felt good, to express all of that, to get it all out<\/em>. I said, each and every time that was suggested: <em>good is not quite the right word. It felt terrifying.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But, but: terrifying has its rewards. I was afraid, and I did it anyway, and that? Was a rush, the very best kind.<\/p>\n<p>(<i>This post is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwenbell.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/30\/the-best-of-2009-blog-challenge.html\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.gwenbell.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/30\/the-best-of-2009-blog-challenge.html\" target=\"_blank\">Best Of 2009<\/a> blog challenge issued by the lovely Gwen Bell. Today&#8217;s challenge: recall the best\/greatest rush you experienced this year. This was mine.)<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most viscerally terrifying experience that I had this year: reading &#8216;Lost Boy&#8217; for BlogHer&#8217;s Community Keynote. It was awesome and wonderful and all those things that one expects from feeling one&#8217;s fear and doing it anyway, but I was as terrified as I have ever been in my life. 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