There's a lot more, and a lot more risk, to this WAHMming stuff than you had realized. And it is little scary to embark on this adventure. Working from home is the sort of thing that can feel like the high wire without a safety net. In her book, Ms. Newman acknowledges that fear and shows us how we can use it to help us reach our goals instead of letting it hold us back. Some people talk about fear as if it were the enemy, as if fear was a bad thing, but it's not.
Fear is our instinct for self-preservation.
It's telling us that there may be danger in what we're doing. Rather than ignoring it, we need to examine it and see what it is specifically. This is important. But sometimes the fear is quite legitimate. Sometimes the butterflies in our stomachs are telling us that we haven't been paying enough attention to the preparatory work, and that we aren't ready yet.