steeling

Parents spend months steeling themselves to face an empty nest.

They might have been steeling themselves for some thunder and lightning from the fans.

That morning, she said, she cried in the shower before steeling herself so she could run out to a Dollar Tree store to pick up some balloons.

He takes several deep breaths, steeling himself, then walks slowly up to the stump.

Many in the national and global health community have been steeling themselves for dramatic change since Kennedy, an opponent of some vaccines and an advocate of stronger food safety, took office vowing radical reform.