423: 5 Ways to Find Anxiety Relief Behind the Wheel
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Gina shares five useful tips to find relief from anxiety while driving an automobile. Gina recommends conscious breathing, being kind to oneself in thought and deed (providing yourself with what you need) and being kind to the other drivers in thought and deed(!). Listen in for help during the stress of driving!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches |
| 0:09.3 | Coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic and PTSD sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | Driving, being behind the wheel, taking trips in the car. |
| 0:35.0 | Today I want to talk about finding anxiety relief behind the wheel. |
| 0:40.0 | I know we talk about driving here occasionally and I really want to just check in with it again |
| 0:47.0 | because I'm hearing a lot of struggle out there with driving and it's one that I can relate to from back in the day so let's get |
| 0:55.6 | going five ways to find anxiety relief behind the wheel. There's nothing like traveling, there's nothing like going in the |
| 1:08.0 | car for a road trip, it's exciting, it's fun, and if you have any anxiety about driving or even for some being a passenger in the car it can be nerve racking. |
| 1:22.0 | So what I want to talk about today are some of the ways that you can just |
| 1:26.7 | begin to bring yourself down, whether you're driving or you're the passenger, but especially if you are the driver. |
| 1:34.2 | And I want to remind everyone that it feels so stressful to feel your anxiety ramp up |
| 1:41.2 | when you are behind the wheel. But just now you have handled it before and |
| 1:45.8 | you will probably handle it just as well this time. And if you need to, for safety sake, to pull |
| 1:52.4 | over and gather yourself, depending on where your anxiety has gone, |
| 1:57.0 | please, by all means, use your inner guidance as to whether you need to be safe or not. You can always stretch yourself |
| 2:05.1 | at another time when you feel a little bit better and you will, especially if you keep practicing |
| 2:11.2 | these tips ahead. We really can be triggered with fight or |
| 2:15.8 | flight when we're in the car. There's so much around us. The actual speed can |
| 2:21.3 | actually get us going, ramping us. If we're on the highway and we need to be going |
| 2:26.4 | maybe faster than we are comfortable driving because of the flow of the traffic. |
| 2:31.2 | Or we can just be stuck with people right behind us. |
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