What If Your Biggest Naysayer Is You?
Every now and then, you cross paths with someone who doesn’t support what you’re about. But what if your biggest naysayer is you?
Torre DeRoche is the author of two travel memoirs, Love with a Chance of Drowning (2013) and The Worrier’s Guide to the End of the World (due out September 2017). She has written for The Atlantic, The Guardian Travel, The Sydney Morning Herald, Emirates, and two Lonely Planet anthologies.
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