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Comment on Virgin Atlantic introduces “Airphoria” by Brendan Walker

Brendan Walker — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:19:39 +0000

I hope no one who’s scared of flying looks at my website (the original Airphoria) http://www.airphoria.co.uk

Comment on About by alexanelson

alexanelson — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:28:04 +0000

Hello Carol and Ale! The Top Ten Lists can be found in the December 22, 2008 edition of Time titled “The List Issue.”

The cover that I posted with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is an older issue. The issue date is May 5, 2008.

If you can’t find either of these issued in the library or the book store, you can definitely find them on the magazine’s website (www.time.com).

Hope this helps and thank you so much for checking out my blog!!

Comment on About by Ale

Ale — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:46:45 +0000

Hey Alexa, I read in your blog the other day about Times Top 10 list and I wanted to by the issue. I can’t find it anywhere, is out on the newsstands?? Please let me know!

thanks,
Ale

Comment on About by Carol Benton

Carol Benton — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:45:28 +0000

hey alexa, can’t find the issue of Time you mentioned in your last post ANYWHERE. i very much enjoy your blog and would like to check it out. at the bookstore they told me the cover you posted was an older issue. what date does your issue have? please let me know as soon as you can. i’m hoping to use it on a school project, thanks!

Comment on Time’s Top Ten Lists by Emily

Emily — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:45:34 +0000

Lex, I hope that I am one of the “3 people” that read your blog, or maybe there’s 4! I actually laughed out loud to myself when you wondered why the macy’s commercials were missing from Time’s list because I know how much you love those commercials simply because of the celebrities. But tell me, was MY favorite ad on the list? The Nike one with the “I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier” song? I LOVE that one.
P.S. they’re a pc not their a pc
love you!
Em

Comment on My Favorite Brands (Part 1) by Old Navy makes a move - to Crispin « Alexa in the City

Old Navy makes a move - to Crispin « Alexa in the City — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:03:19 +0000

[...] Navy is one of my favorite brands. I would shop there for back-to-school clothes when I was in elementary school and I plan to make a [...]

Comment on Virgin Atlantic introduces “Airphoria” by Capt Tom Bunn LCSW

Capt Tom Bunn LCSW — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:02:07 +0000

First, by way of introduction, I’m both an airline captain and a licensed therapist. Working with people who have trouble with flying has been my specialty for twenty-eight years.

There is a great deal of misunderstanding about the cause of fear of flying. It is not caused by a bad flight; most people on a bad flight don’t develop fear of flying. Difficulty with flying is caused by insufficient ability to regulate feelings when facing uncertainty.

Research since the advent of the functional MRI just eight years ago has helps us understand how the brain works. We now recognize that the ability to regulate feelings is learned and that the part of the brain that does this regulation requires stimulation of the right kind during the first two years of life. The right kind of stimulation requires a caregiver who is empathically attuned to the infant and responds to the infants signals, rather than simply providing for the infant according to an agenda set by the caregiver.

If the child is afraid, the caregiver needs to tune into the child’s fear in a way the child really knows the caregiver feels the same way. Thus the child knows he or she is not alone.

Then, the magic happens; the caregiver then lets the child know that — though the child’s fear is 100% shared — the adult has an additional point of view, which is that it is not the end of the world; it will work out alright.

Many of us, obviously, didn’t get such optimal early development. Thus, when facing uncertainty, we control our anxiety by being in control of the situation, or by having a way to out of it.

That works fairly well on the ground — except for annoying those who regard us as control freaks. But when flying, there is uncertainty, of course. And, not being in control and not having a way out, there is no way to regulate the feelings.

I have tried to give a good understanding of the cause and cure of fear of flying in a video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcx6ZsvKHSA&feature

Also, at
http://www.fearofflying.com/video_hs.shtml

Comment on “Sex and the City” Day Part II by stacistringer

stacistringer — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:23:12 +0000

yeah I’m sure you have all three pre-ordered!

Comment on “90210 2.0″ Premiers 9.02 by stacistringer

stacistringer — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:43:34 +0000

I think we should have a 90210 2.0 party- dress up like our favorite characters and watch it! haha
But I definitely agree that was a bad choice on the CW’s part not to release the show to critics. I can’t handle loosing Brenda so soon into the show!

Comment on Alexa is in the City! by stacistringer

stacistringer — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:48:43 +0000

Have fun enjoy yourself and Land a job so I have a superb reason to visit you in THE CITY!!! I miss you and love you! Good luck!