Mindfulness
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5 days agoI'm a Travel Writer Who's Terrified of Flying-This Tool Helps Me Stay Calm in the Air
Learning to source and read turbulence forecasts can help alleviate flight anxiety for travelers.
Yes, I'm admitting it in writing that I'm terrified of flying-and I do it for a living. So, naturally, I've tried just about everything, but only one thing has seemed to make a difference: learning how to source and read turbulence forecasts for each and every flight I take. I use sites like Turbli, which combines data from official weather and aviation agencies to predict the turbulence, wind, and thunderstorm activity along your flight route.
"I don't want to speak for him," Moreno told Metal Hammer. "And even if I could, I still don't have an answer. Really I don't. It's still something that I think he is figuring out. And if he does have an answer, I think it'd be great if one day he would share it. But yeah, we support him. We have to. He's our friend. And his health, be it physically or mentally, always takes the forefront of anything."
Not someone, but myself, unfortunately. The last flight I was on was my first time leaving town without my kids. The anxiety I got from leaving them and being a day's worth of traveling away made me feel physically sick. I knew we'd miss them and I knew it would be hard, but I'd generally been strong about it and despite that aspect, very excited. Once we got as far as boarding the plane, I was nauseous from anxiety.