Face Your Fear, Repeatedly but In Small Doses

Exposure therapy is the idea that being exposed to something you're afraid of over and over again calms down your limbic system so it doesn't fire up as fast. That could mean less anxiety in the long run.

Before you move to the next level of exposure, make sure your fight-or-flight response is less active.

It could look something like this:

• Watch YouTube videos of planes taking off. 
• Watch videos of planes actually flying. 
• Listen to audio of a flight in turbulence.
• Go to the airport and watch planes take off. 
• Get on a plane.