I have made a lot of progress toward overcoming driving anxiety.

I'm in my 50's and only got my license 4 1/2 years ago. Anxiety is compounded by the fact that I don't see well in the dark. So at night, or if it's stormy or very cloudy, I can't drive. Where I live, it gets dark very early in the winter, like around 4:00 PM, so if I go anywhere, I have to allow myself enough time to get home while I can still see. So, I don't get out much in the winter. Every spring, it's almost like learning to drive all over again.

So here it is, late December. There is snow on the ground, and the sky was overcast. Not ideal driving conditions.

And yet, today when I drove to my volunteer job, I was more nervous about walking across the parking lot than I was about driving there.