Anxiety on the Road

There's a thing that happens not just in the world, but the way that our brains work and don't work that exacerbates this tendency. And it is it has to do with the way we focus on the left hemisphere more than the right hemisphere That alarm response goes straight to the whole body and creates a fight, flight, fawn response. So what happens is that there's you see something unfamiliar. There's a spark of fear, which is not based on anything rational. It's a deep animal instinctual sense of fear. But then the human part of your brain goes, oh, there's a reason for this. I'm going to make up an excuse for why I'm