Conquering Fear: A Handy Guide by Samantha W.

STEP ONE: Locate your fear (mine being sharks)
STEP TWO: Learn about your fear.  Let's see...sharks never run out of teeth; they commonly break off while hunting for prey, but they constantly grow more in multiple layers. Sharks can smell blood from over a mile away. A shark tosses it's head back and forth to tear meat from it's prey, essentially eating it alive.
STEP THREE: Crap. That didn't help at all. Actually, that sort of made it worse.
STEP FOUR: Watch a show, movie, or documentary about your fear (preferably not a horror movie. Again, this kind of increases the fear). Okay, how about...erm...Soul Surfer. Yeah. What could be scary about a nice, happy, inspirational movie?
STEP FIVE: Um. EVERYTHING. My friends told me "You hardly even see the shark at all."

The giagantic shark LEAPS up onto the surf board, rips the girl off of it, and then for like fifteen minutes, all you can see is this bleeding, thrashing mess in the water. When she re-surfaces, she has no left arm.
STEP SIX: Assure yourself that it was just a show/movie/documentary. Look up your fear in the news to see how un-dangerous and un-scary they really are.

Come across a picture of a tiger shark tank that collapsed in a Thailand mall.

STEP SEVEN: Vow never to go to Thailand.

STEP EIGHT: Admit to yourself that sharks are incurably frightening and stay away from all bodies of water.