How do you work through birth/labour fears??...

[Beach Mama]

I was just reading some stuff about VBAC and a common theme was not to ignore fear, but rather to acknowledge it is there and then work though it.

I have a number of fears regarding this birth and am doing all I can to embrace what is coming and to positively think my way to an empowered birth no matter what happens, but how do I work my way through these fears??

Education is one way that I am doing this but in some ways the more I read the more fears I come up with!

So how did you overcome fears you had leading up to and during labour/birth??

ETA - Other things I am doing is attending an antenatal exercise class where there is alot of open discussion regarding birth and labour, employing a doula (gotta get onto that ) and visualising my birth.