How I overcame my anxiety around travelling

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

Overwhelm, Education, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Caroline Foran, Stress, Anxiety

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Brought to you in partnership with British Airways Holidays, this solo episode explores my experience of travel anxiety. It's something that held me back from getting on a flight for such a long time and it meant I missed out on a huge amount of formative experiences. Eventually, I worked through it with some mindset shifts laid out in this episode and other coping mechanisms, leading to once-in-a-lifetime trips to Thailand and Japan. Part of managing travel anxiety, be it the kind I experienced or the general stresses that surround travel, for example when holidaying with children, is booking with the right provider. British Airways Holidays are making it so much easier to enjoy your holidays without the stress. All their holidays are ATOL protected, they offer a 24hr helpline should you need them when you’re away and allow you to book with a low deposit. You can enjoy flexible payments until you fly*, and can even use Avios points towards your holiday too! Plus, all their holidays include a 23kg baggage allowance per person, so no surprises when you book. If this episode inspires you to take your holidays more seriously you can head to Ba.com/holidays.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to Owning It. If you would like to support the series, the best thing you can do is just tell a friend or better yet share it on social media. If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column. Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolinephorun.substack.com. Thank you.
0:22.2	Hello, dear listener and welcome to owning it the anxiety podcast with me, your host and
0:27.3	author of the three books on which this podcast was first inspired, Caroline Forin.
0:32.4	Before we get into today's very special episode, I wanted to let you know that I've started a substack,
0:38.8	and that is where I'll be sharing all of my writing with, of course, a huge focus on anxiety.
0:44.2	So, if you want a little bit more than you get here with the podcast, you can subscribe
0:48.3	at the link in the podcast notes or by going directly to carolineforen.substack.com.
0:54.2	And I really, really hope you will join me over there.
0:57.1	Now, this week's episode is all about travel anxiety, something I have plenty of experience
1:02.4	in dealing with.
1:03.7	Even the word travel used to just make me shudder, but thankfully not anymore.
1:08.5	This episode is made possible by British Airways Holidays, who upon learning
1:12.7	that 50% of UK adults do not take their annual leave allocation, are on a mission, and rightly
1:18.4	so, to make everyone take their holidays a little bit more seriously. There is so much more to
1:23.5	taking a holiday than a pinocallada by the pool, but I won't lie, that in itself is right now
1:28.6	enough of a draw for me. In this solo episode, so it's just me, for which I'm so thrilled to have
1:34.2	partnered with British Airways holidays, I'm going to talk about my experience with travel anxiety.
1:39.4	What held me back and what eventually helped me take that leap and open myself up to a world of
1:44.7	experiences, which in itself has had a hugely positive impact on my anxiety. I'll be talking
1:50.9	about the mental health benefits of booking their British Airways holiday, the psychology around
1:55.1	travel anxiety, and sharing practical ways to make your own travel experience one that is free from stress.
2:04.2	So travel's not something I've spoken about too much, and it definitely deserves its own episode.
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