"I had the moment. The Moment. When life was as I expected, until it wasn't."

That was the day that Lauree Ostrofsky came face-to-face with the little white blob, an acoustic neuroma brain tumor. A series of scary moments and missteps followed, and ultimately led her to launching #hugtour, plotting routes to office buildings and coffee shops hugging people she cares about along the way.

The process teaches her that running hugs in traffic are exhilarating, and that unabashedly sharing love is more worthwhile (and sometimes scarier) than she could ever have imagined.

I'm scared & doing it anyway is a memoir about the choices you make when you feel like you don't have any...and just how far they can take you.

Through Lauree's journey, readers see how powerfully compelling their own challenges can be, and how close they already are to achieving their heart's desires.

Reviews:

" This book] made me laugh out loud and shed quiet tears."
-Patrice Tanaka, and author of Becoming Ginger Rogers

"This book is a love poem to life."
-Joselin Linder, The Good Girl's Guide to Living in Sin

"Lauree lets you into the inner workings of her mind and heart to travel the path from fear to love. I was spellbound reading this book."
-Aliza Sherman, web pioneer and author of Mom, Incorporated and PowerTools for Women in Business