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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lots of people take medications for anxiety. Many others prefer not to. That’s understandable. Nearly all medication comes with side effects. Medication side effects are sometimes worse than the anxiety symptoms. When anxiety medication isn’t an option, try these effective herbs for driving anxiety. There are many options to choose […]
Have you ever caused a car accident? Millions of people have. And millions more live with a profound sense of guilt about it. Having guilt or anxiety after causing a car accident is very common. If you are living with “I caused a car accident” guilt, here’s what you can […]
There are tons of different fears out there. People can be scared of anything from the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of their mouths to the fear of the color yellow. One common phobia is amaxophobia, the fear of riding in or driving a vehicle. Let’s talk […]
Amaxophobia noun – amax*o*phobiaFear of riding in or being in a vehicle.Requiring of amaxophobia treatment. Amaxophobia comes from the Ancient Greek words hámaxa (wagon) and phobos, the word for fear. People associate it more closely with driving anxiety as a passenger. But both passengers and drivers can require amaxophobia treatment. […]
For most people, driving phobia therapy is unnecessary. Driving is just an everyday activity that they take for granted. Sure, it can be frustrating, annoying, even boring. But, most do it without a second thought. Driving disappears completely unconsciously into their day-to-day life . These people don’t need driving phobia […]
Recovering from driving anxiety is a process, not a destination. And although we are trying to get to a place where it no longer rules our lives, we need to remember that anxiety recovery is a process that we’ll be working with (off and on) for the rest of our lives. […]
A Driving Peace customer emailed me the other day, asking about tunnel phobia. If you’ve never heard of this, “tunnel phobia” is the fear brought on by having to drive through a tunnel. I have to admit, I’d never had much reason to think about this type of driving fear, […]