Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your

anxiety. I'm Shan Vanderleak here with my good friend and anxiety Slayer partner Ananga Severe.

We come together weekly on Skype to share anxiety Slayer sessions with you and enjoy answering

listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page. with you

and enjoy answering listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page.

Together we share a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety.

And today we're going to be discussing

how you can support yourself when you need to travel using public transportation.

This is the question that popped into our inbox.

Hi ladies, thank you so much for your amazing podcast.

It has helped me so much with my anxiety.

I was wondering if you have some tips for anxiety on public transportation.

I really struggle once I get on the bus or train.

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Thanks for your help and for your thoughts.

I thought that was a really great question in Nanga and I know that it applies to people in more urban areas than rural as I live in my little village and have the option of my car or a bus, but I can remember feeling some anxiety around

traveling the underground, especially on vacation or in areas that I didn't know and can imagine that it can be quite stressful sometimes.

Can you address this question?

There's a couple of key elements with traveling and one of them is the anticipatory anxiety where we run the journey through our head which if we're feeling okay can be an

Organizational exercise where do I need to go do I need to change what do I need to change? What do I need to take?

If we're not feeling okay and our anxiety is a little spiked,

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