Ep 52. Fear of Flying with Tom Bunn

Not Another Anxiety Show

Kelli Walker

Therapy, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Health, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Anxiety, Claireweekes, Counseling, Brenebrown, Research, Meditation, Panicattacks, Science, Selfhelp, Stress

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Join Kelli and guest Tom Bunn (licensed therapist and retired airline captain) as they discuss fear of flying and ways to overcome it.

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0:00.0	Hey, guys, welcome to Not Another Anxiety Show.
0:15.0	I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and joining me to talk about Fear of Flying today is guest Tom Bunn.
0:19.9	Hi, Tom.
0:23.0	Hi, hi, Kelly. Thanks so much for hopping on the show today. It's a pleasure. Thank you for having me. Yeah. Do you mind if I share
0:28.0	a little bit more about you with our listeners before we jump right in? Okay, sure. Please go ahead.
0:32.8	Wonderful. So, Captain Tom Bunn, licensed clinical social worker, is a retired airline captain, licensed therapist, and contributor to psychology today, and Time Magazine.
0:44.2	He has appeared on Regis, Good Morning America, Fox News, NBC, CNN, BBC, and MSNBC.
0:51.8	His book, Soar, The Breakthrough breakthrough treatment for fear of flying, was chosen Amazon
0:55.6	editor's 2014 favorite book.
0:58.5	His free app, a mini fear of flying course for anxious flyers, continues to get rave reviews.
1:03.3	It also measures turbulence and reassures the user the plane is fine.
1:08.2	So a lot of our listeners have emailed me about, you know, fear, anxiety, and even panic around
1:14.6	flying. And I knew you'd be the perfect guess because I myself have struggled with fear
1:19.0	of flying and found your book sore. Incredibly valuable.
1:24.3	Incredibly valuable. Well, that's great to hear. Thanks. I'm glad it's working for you. You know,
1:29.0	you have to be a kind of a good student to be able to translate what's there into your own life,
1:33.9	so that's a nice move. Sometimes I have to actually have a half-hour session or so with a person
1:42.3	in order to make it fit with their own experience.
1:46.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:47.0	But the principles are good.
1:49.3	You know, we have two ways to shut down the fear system, one that produces oxytocin, which is a peptide that will sort of put the part of the brain that releases stress hormones on standby.
2:02.2	Yeah.
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