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Fear of Flying (Part 2): Why Your Fear of Flying Isn’t Really About Flying

by Joel SchmidtAnxiety, Therapy June 27, 2025August 2, 2026No Comments

“Fear of Flying (Part Two): Why Your Fear of Flying Isn’t Really About Flying” As a specialist in working with anxiety, I often work with anxious fliers. They typically fit into one of two categories. They either do fly—occasionally, but only when they have to—and sort of fight their way through it with a lot of discomfort. Or they avoid flying altogether. They sometimes struggle to know why they’re “afraid of flying” when they rationally …

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Fear of Flying (Part 1): What This Series is and Why it Matters

by Joel SchmidtAnxiety, Therapy June 16, 2025August 2, 2026No Comments

This blog post, “Fear of Flying Part One: What this Series is and Why it Matters”, is timely, I suppose. I planned on writing this series on flight anxiety right before the tragic Air India crash in June 2025. The months leading up to that were riddled with other rare occurrences such as the Army Black Hawk helicopter collision with an American Airlines flight near D.C. As is often the case, when something like that …

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When Following Your Intuition is Bad Advice

by Joel SchmidtAnxiety, Healthy Thinking, Mindfulness, Worry April 9, 2025April 9, 2025No Comments

When Following Your Intuition is Bad Advice: I recently saw a post on Instagram that said something like this: “Follow your gut. Trust your intuition. If something feels wrong, it is wrong.” Well-intended advice, I’m sure. I suppose there’s something to it—and there are definitely times when we might indeed “go with our gut.” More than a handful of times since starting a business, I’ve begun some sort of professional business relationship with someone where …

Unmasking: How Masking Can Lead to the Cycle of Anxiety and Affect your Self-Esteem

by Summer SchmidtAnxiety, Children Therapy, Confidence, Neurodiversity, Teenage April 10, 2023April 10, 2023No Comments

This post was a submission by Alexis Lynch, Licensed Mental Health Counselor. See below for information on how to get scheduled with her for individual or couples work. You’re sitting in the living room, blanket over your head, pretending to be batman, making fun noises that go along with being a superhero in Gotham, and repeating, “I’m Batman.” From across the house you hear, “Why do you insist on making so much noise? Can’t you …

Understanding Anxiety, Treatment for it, and how to Support: A Resource for Family and Friends

by Joel SchmidtAnxiety November 22, 2021November 23, 2021No Comments

If you’re reading this it’s probably because someone you know and care about has been struggling with some kind of disordered anxiety. Perhaps they’re in therapy – or are considering therapy – and you’re wanting to better understand what’s going on, how therapy can help, and how you can help. Disordered anxiety goes above and beyond the “normal” anxiety we all experience from time to time and can be really challenging (in the most extreme …