Driving instructors are assholes. No, seriously. Not all of them, of course. But the majority are. I’ve met a lot of driving instructors via Driving Peace in the last 10 years. I’ve not been impressed. Some have been downright repulsive. Cretinous, small-minded, petty authoritarians who are legends in their own […]
Anxiety Relief Exercises and Mindfulness Techniques
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Much of defeating driving anxiety depends on your ability to calm down and be present. It’s no accident that my co-founder, Andrew Cunningham, is a clinical hypnotherapist; hypnosis for driving anxiety is a very effective technique for reprogramming your brain to see driving as a safe, non-threatening activity. Another way […]
If you’ve lost confidence driving, it’s a awful feeling. It’s painful. You feel anxious. Stuck. Hopeless. Perhaps you even feel humiliated. A loss of confidence in anything hurts. This is especially true in an area where you’re used to feelings of mastery and control. Driving is a fundamental part of […]
More and more people tell me lately they get sudden vertigo while driving. Vertigo — which is also a fantastic Alfred Hitchcock movie — is a feeling of sudden dizziness. It’s the sensation that the world around you is spinning, even when you know it isn’t. Vertigo is a medical […]
As we all know, there are lots of fears and phobias. However, what many may not know is that driving phobia affects many people worldwide. It is an increasingly common anxiety disorder where the affected person develops the fear of driving for one or more reasons. In many cases, it […]
Hypnosis has gotten a bad rap over the centuries. Many people still think of staring at a swinging watch, with some cheesy guy saying, “You are getting veeeeeerrry sleeeeepyyy“. But hypnosis is a highly respected form of therapy. And hypnosis for driving anxiety is very effective. Andrew Cunningham, the co-founder […]
When driving in heavy traffic, merging is a common challenge for many drivers. Traffic congestion can be a serious nightmare. On some highways, three lanes merge into two, or two lanes merge into one. Merging fear is common when you have driving anxiety. Without the proper skills, you could easily […]
Highways are an inescapable part of our lives. If you drive a car, you’ll have to drive on highways at least some of the time. Highway driving freaks a lot of drivers out though, because it’s the number one fear of anxious drivers. The speed, traffic, and driving near large […]
Merging on the highway is a tricky beast. You have to make a series of lightning-fast decisions on the fly, and they all have to be correct. It makes sense that fear of merging on the highway is probably the scariest part of highway driving. It’s basically every phobic driver’s […]
It turns out fear of being a passenger in a car is way more of a “thing” than I realized. I’ve spent years on here talking about anxious drivers. But I only learned recently how many people cope with driving anxiety as a passenger. Check out the number of Google […]
Everyone does something wrong at some point in life. And everyone feels guilty about their mistakes sometimes. Whether it’s a major blunder or a careless mistake, the most important thing is to learn from it and move on. Feeling guilty after a car accident is very common. Sometimes it may […]
Fears, anxieties, and phobias are not uncommon. Sometimes I visit a phobia list and marvel at the thousands & thousands of codified human fears out there. I can relate to some of them, but for many, I can’t because I just don’t have enough of a frame of reference. But […]