Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey

and inspire you to create your own.

Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,

from my personal experiences to useful tools and different

mindful techniques.

Hello and welcome to episode 163 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

This episode is going to be all about mindful driving, especially for people who might feel nervous or stressed when they're driving.

This topic has been requested a few times, and it's something that's important to me too.

When I first moved from the country to the city when I was 18 years old, I would get

really, really stressed and overwhelmed when I was driving. It was scary because I wasn't familiar

with the roads and there were so many things happening at once like traffic lights and bike riders

and buses and it felt like everything was just so much faster

compared to country driving. It didn't help that six months before, I'd been a passenger in a

serious car accident with a car that rolled several times and I was struggling to come to

terms with it. But I was a nervous driver even before that. I got my learner's license when I was struggling to come to terms with it. But I was a nervous driver even before that.

I got my learner's license when I was 16 and I drove a lot with my mum and dad.

But when I went for my driving test two years later, I failed not once, not twice, but three times

because I got so incredibly anxious and overwhelmed by my fear of failure

that I made small mistakes and I just could not think straight. Anyway, I still use mindfulness

and stress management techniques when I'm driving. It's not an activity which feels very

comfortable or natural for me and I can easily get overwhelmed.

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