Props and beers (after the flight)! Good work! I had more nuts than brains when I got my ticket and launched into several single pilot low ifr cross countries right after. I made some mistakes but it got me over the fear.

Yesterday I was in the back of a CRJ and a broken cloud deck was cloaked right around the altitude of the STAR (standard terminal arrival route) into 'O Hare. To me a STAR in heavy clouds is more interesting than an approach or cruise in thick clouds. You are low and fairly slow, turning this way and that way without any vectors. Some people really don't trust their instruments and find these conditions frightening. Pros do it with style though as a matter of course.