[munificent]

As someone how has spent several years in therapy in part related to anxiety, the answer to "how do you get over the fear of X" is "do things that incrementally approach X".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_therapy

There's really no other successful approach I've seen for curing anxiety. You have to just steel yourself and do the thing you're afraid of. It gets easier every time.

[lanstin]

An inconvenient truth. It can even become fun, but no guarantee. (I just gave an hour long presentation to a couple dozen people, and was looking forward to it, which was what would have happened ten years ago).