Driving Confidence - Penny's story of how her driving phobia stopped her driving for 13 years and how she overcame her fears to start driving again

In this episode, Kev and Tracey talk to Penny Ling who is a hypnotherapist who has overcome her own driving phobia and didn't drive for 13 years.  She now drives confidently, as well as helping other people to overcome their own driving fears.

Penny describes how her family background, stress levels and a series of unfortunate events built up to her stopping driving.  How she tried hypnotherapy and it didn't work, before embarking on a career change as a hypnotherapist, resulting in her returning to driving and writing a book to help others.

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

Are your driving fears made worse by your general stress levels?

How full is your stress bucket?

What driving experiences have you had that may have reduced your driving confidence?  Are they related to your driving skill or something else?

What techniques have you employed so far to build your driving confidence?

If you would like to find out more about working with Penny you can visit her website: https://www.oxford-hypnotherapy.co.uk

And you can find her book Driving Me Crazy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Driving-crazy-Overcome-fear-driving-ebook/dp/B089T5S3GS

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