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I'm 11. Kelly, welcome to the program.

Thank you, Dr. Laura. I told my husband I need to talk to sports psychiatrist and today it dawn on me that you're the one I need to talk to.

I have a very demanding physical trip that's starting in two weeks and I'm scared to death and I want you to give me a mantra to get my head right.

What is it that you're doing that you're scared of?

I'm climbing to the Mount Everest base camp. Why? Why?

Because it's a hike. It's not a climb. It's just a hike. I wouldn't call it okay. It's a hike. Okay. The first base camp. All right.

Yes, it's all it's under 18,000 feet. It is not something that takes a lot of skill. I'm going with a very reputable company. It's a family trip.

And I'm so nervous about it that if I talk about it, I cry.

Well, how far can you run without sucking in air and having to sit down?

Well, I'm not a runner. I just the stairmaster for 30 minutes, five times a week. I've been working with a trainer all year.

And she says I'm ready. I'm just freaked out.

What do you freaked out by?

It's going to be really hard and I'm not an athlete. I'm freaked out by the unknown.

But you start, stop, start, stop, and then you'll eventually get there. Everybody will toast everybody, eat too much nonsense and you'll come down the mountain.

Yes. That's exactly right.

Have you done things at heights? You know, the oxygen levels?

Yes, not that high, obviously. But as we go to the mountains very often and maybe twice in 20 years, I've had a headache.

I do not have altitude issues.

Okay.

If you stay very high, well, I don't understand what you're afraid of that you won't make it that you'll embarrass yourself. What are you afraid of?

Yes.

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