Fear of Flying Workbook: Overcome Your Anticipatory Anxiety and Develop Skills for Flying with Confidence

by David A. Carbonell

Leads readers step-by-step with proven techniques that finally make it possible to conquer their fear of flying

You’ve tried to face your fear of flying, but the harder you try to control it, the worse it gets. This book teaches how to work constructively with your brain so you can address your anxiety in different ways that truly help you let go of the fear.

Packed with hands-on exercises, this book helps you better understand both the anticipatory anxiety prior to a flight as well as the fear experienced on board—and provides the tools needed to successfully fill the role of passenger,

• Questionnaires and fill-in-the-blanks
• Pre-flight checklists and practice flight itinerary
• In-flight panic journal and symptom graphs
• Symptom and response inventories
• Breathing and meditation exercises

Drawing from exposure therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy, the methods in this book will help

• Understand how you became afraid
• Discard safety objects and behaviors
• Identify signal fears and false alarms
• Use the AWARE steps onboard the plane
• Recognize and respond to symptoms
• Restore your ability to fly and travel

Genres: Self Help

136 pages, Paperback

Published July 27, 2021

About the author

David Carbonell, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in treating anxiety. He is the author of four self-help books: Panic Attacks Workbook, The Worry Trick, Fear of Flying Workbook, and Outsmart Your Anxious Brain. He is also the “coach” of the popular self-help site, anxietycoach, and his books are all available for purchase there. In his spare time, he is the founding member of The Therapy Players, an improvisational comedy troupe of professional psychotherapists in the Chicago area.

Reviews

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

I mean. I guess it's kind of useful. I'm still terrified though. I'm gonna fly, but I'll just be shit scared while I do it.

[Allison · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a fearful flyer, I listened to this audiobook in the few days leading up to a recent flight. Although my fear was not completely eliminated, and I still had moments of SHEER TERROR AND PANIC during the flight (particularly during turbulence), I was able to engage with them more calmly and with greater presence of mind than I have in the past.

The things I found most helpful:
- Discovering that it is not the actual flying that I fear, but that I fear my feelings of fear and entrapment during the flight. This was a real light-switch moment for me.
- Expect fear.
- Using the AWARE acronym:
- Acknowledge and Accept my feelings (don’t try to distract myself as this only strengthens the fear habit)
- Wait for the feelings to pass and Watch for the role I am taking on (victim or observer)
- Act (grounding exercises, mindfulness, other techniques)
- Repeat as often as needed
- End (know that the feelings of fear will end)
- Imagining the plane in a block of jello.

I doubt I will ever fly without feeling any fear. But I am hopeful for improvement.

[Sophie Rebecca Kempshall · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’ve read a lot of books to try and help me overcome my fear of flying, however this book has been the most useful. With exercises throughout to guide you along, it’s a new and effective approach to tackling this particular fear/phobia. An easy 5*, with much gratitude sent to the author!

[Jason Redula · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best books on the subject. Helpful for other types of phobias as well.

[Jake Brush · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book to read if you have a fear of anything. It has great insight into the science of fear and anxiety and provides real solutions on how to face them.

[Nora · Rating 4 out of 5]

Review to come

[Nikki · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book helped me work through my fear and anxiety. I loved that it has a workbook inside too