The Driving Confidence Podcast Rewiring the Brain: Understanding and Overcoming Driving Anxiety with Joshua Fletcher
In this episode, Kev and Tracey chat to Josh Fletcher to discuss driving anxiety, its causes, and how to overcome it.
We chat about:
- Safety behaviors and their contribution towards agoraphobic driving anxiety
- Rewiring the brain and confronting anxiety without relying on safety behaviors
- Understanding the cycle of anxiety and tolerating anxiety while carrying on with daily activities
- Secondary anxiety in addition to the initial fear and its exacerbating factors
While listening to this episode, ask yourself:
- What was happening in your life when you first started to experience driving anxiety?
- Have your driving habits become gradually more and more limited?
- Do you have driving safety behaviours or crutches that you use instead of taking the credit for your driving?
Joshua Fletcher is a UK-based psychotherapist who specialises in working with anxiety disorders.
He is best known as Anxiety Josh across social media and has quickly become a renowned and reputable figure in the industry.
A self-confessed anxiety disorder nerd, Josh has a deeper level of understanding beyond the textbooks and training.
He grew up in Manchester and was once diagnosed with crippling anxiety; suffering from panic attacks, agoraphobia, health anxiety and generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), as well as intrusive thoughts, obsessive compulsive behaviours.
Socials: @anxietyjosh
Website: https://schoolofanxiety.com
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