First, take a deep breath, you’ve found the right place if you have a fear of driving. I know how frustrating it can be to have a fear about something that so many other people do without even thinking about it. I know because I was just like you and went through the same thing. I had severe driving anxiety and it took me a LONG time to overcome it, but it doesn’t have to be that way for you. If you listen and learn from me, you can get past your fear very quickly using the right techniques like what I’ve put together at www.DrivingFear.com.

I first started out avoiding highways, I just felt panicky because I couldn’t get off whenever I wanted. Then I started dreading red lights since I was trapped there until the light changed. Then I avoided bridges, then traffic, and more and more until my world started to get smaller and smaller. Pretty soon, I didn’t want to drive anywhere and when I did, it was miserable. I had a “comfort zone” of about 5 miles from my house that I stayed in. When I ventured outside of that, it was terrible. I was plagued by panic attacks, scary thoughts, and physical anxiety.

As I avoided more and more, I spent a lot of time in my local library (only a couple miles away luckily!) and my basement, reading a TON of info about phobias, anxiety, and fears. There wasn’t anything about the fear I had specifically, so I started trying everything I learned and experimented to find out what would work. I spent a long time at this, material wasn’t that easy to come by and so little worked. There was so much BS out there it was incredible.

Eventually, I found what worked and what could be applied to my fear. It wasn’t what my therapist said, it wasn’t some new age mumbo jumbo, it was pretty straightforward techniques I had developed based on proven psychological techniques that had been used for years to help with other severe phobias and traumas. These more fundamental approaches got combined with cutting edge breakthrough’s that had been made in areas such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming to result in what was the first generation of the Driving Fear program. As the program gained notoriety for it’s ability to help people overcome their driving anxiety, we continue to learn more about what works best and additional techniques to help make recovery easier. These are then incorporated into the program, keeping it at the top of its class for driving phobia and boasting a greater than 97% customer satisfaction rate which is virtually unheard of in the industry and something I’m personally very proud of.

I’ve been free of anxiety about driving for over 6 years now and I try to help those that struggle with the same fear I did find the answers. I wasted so many good years hiding in my house, afraid of something so curable, I don’t want a single person to have to go through what I did.

If you want to learn more techniques right away, you can join the mailing list at www.DrivingFear.com or by subscribing on the right hand part of this page and you’ll get a free mini-series. I’ll be posting tips here as well. Thanks for reading and if you’re willing to take the first step, you CAN overcome your fear of driving, if I can, anyone can.

See You on the Road,

Rich Presta