You can confront the WAS -- bad word choice, "confront," and if I think of another one I'll edit) -- face up to the WAS but not crowd them.
DB Coach says, give her a week. Okay, what's a week? One needs time to formulate a strategy, rehearse, get the lines down -- most importantly, time to think about how to Stay Cool while doing the deed. And the confrontation -- again, bad word choice -- hang on, clicking over to the online thesaurus --
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Synonyms: accost, affront, beard, brave, call one's bluff, come up against, dare, defy, encounter, face down, face up to, face with, flout, front, go one-on-one, go up against, meet, meet eyeball-to-eyeball, oppose, repel, resist, scorn, stand up to, tell off, withstand
-- the facing up to can be framed in terms of questions and not demands, assertions, accusations. One can come to grips with the outside challenges without turning prosecutorial.
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