{"id":65553,"date":"2023-10-02T03:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=65553"},"modified":"2023-10-02T03:08:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T08:08:18","slug":"overcoming-fear-of-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=65553","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming Fear of Flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;I need to get over my fear of flying,&rdquo; Fiona[1] told me. &ldquo;I used to take planes all the time, but now just thinking about flying makes my heart race and my stomach churn. Can you help?&rdquo; The fear of flying, also called aerophobia, is common, second only to the fear of public speaking. Between 33 percent and 40 percent of all people experience some anxiety related to flying, and 2.5&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2023\/10\/02\/overcoming-fear-of-flying\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fear of flying, also called aerophobia, is common, second only to the fear of public speaking. Between 33 percent and 40 percent of all people experience some anxiety related to flying, and 2.5 percent to 5 percent have a crippling fear of flying (or phobia). If you or someone you know struggles with this fear, there is hope. \u201cFears can be fought,\u201d Ed Welch declares. They are the result of chronic, excessive overprotection and focus on self. The fearful flier needs to focus on the grace God gives today and take practical steps to overcome his or her intense fear. This means addressing the body and the mind. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":65555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[252,5626,1973,936,708,2987],"class_list":["post-65553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-fear","tag-fear-of-flying","tag-overcoming-fear-and-anxiety","tag-people-in-need-of-care","tag-people-who-offer-care","tag-phobias","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65556,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65553\/revisions\/65556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}