You’re the same person who got through the last hard thing. Remember that guy? He’s still here.

Continuity is easy to lose sight of during a hard stretch. Whoever came through the last difficult thing was not a stronger, different version, it was you, with the same doubts, probably feeling just as unprepared at the time. Memory keeps the outcome and drops the fear that came with it, which is why the earlier you looks braver than the current you feels. Nothing was swapped out in between.

Remember what frightened you last time and how it actually went. Ask what you did then that you could do again now. What you are looking for is already in your own history.