Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan Banderleak here with my wonderful friend and co-host Ananga Severe.

We come together weekly from Kent and Leylenaw to share

anxiety slayer sessions with you and answer listener questions from our inbox and Facebook

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

And this week we're responding to a question about how to overcome the fear of driving a car.

Hey Ananga, it's good to be with you again talking about something that's been coming up quite a bit and the question that came in was I'm a new driver and would love to hear about

tips for calming anxiety before driving as well as what to do if you start to feel panicked while driving, which is timely, I will say as my daughter is learning to drive right now.

So with her permission, I'll be sharing some feedback from

Marin as we talk about this topic today. Yeah that's great. It's great to have

feedback from somebody that's in the same situation as As we've discussed before, anxiety is usually a vata concern according to

Ira Vader and anything new, learning new things, doing new things change,

you're moving around, all of those things can peak

Vutter and outer anxiety, so lots of practical things

you can do to help this.

That's for sure.

And as exciting as it can be to get a driver's license for the first time,

the thought of getting on the road can be pretty terrifying for some people,

especially new drivers. And the fear of driving is also a big concern for a lot of our

listeners who suffer with anxiety. It may be the fear of driving on your own

whether it be for the first time or or every time to being a passenger in a vehicle

with somebody else who's driving due to a sense of feeling like you're out of

control which I can also speak to that.

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