"“I think you’re ready to try one of our easy black diamonds,” my instructor Jim tells me during a ski lesson at Big Sky Resort in Montana. I live in a very anxious body so I’m not buying Jim’s confidence in my skiing, which was jump-started a handful of months before I turned 30. ... And with that, I am ready. My skis point down and my body follows. I manage to make it to the end of Never Sweat. Does it look pretty? No. But I did it, and that sense of accomplishment will be incredibly precious for the next time I’m staring down a run that my brain is telling me is out of my league."
