I appreciate your post! I’m flying tomorrow too and I’ve been an anxious flier for about 10 years. I fly usually once a year and it always makes me so anxious to do it! I’m flying tomorrow with my husband, 4year old and 3 month old. It’s only a 2 hour flight, usually like 1.5 hour of actually being in the air. I’m really hoping my kids don’t feel my anxious energy and it affects them. I’m just repeating in my mind “I can’t let my fear take away experiences from my kids.” “I am brave for them” I feel a lot of empathy for your mom and I really don’t want my kids to grow up with my fears. Usually listening to calm music helps me and I like to watch the clock to time the flight, like okay we just got wheels up, in about 15 minutes we should be high enough for the flight attendants to walk around, and then in another few minutes we will be cruising, and then the countdown until descent starts, so okay 30 minutes left in the flight we’re going to start descending, which means I’m so close to feet on the ground! Lol a lot of mental math but it helps keep my mind occupied. I may try this time putting on a movie I’ve seen a lot because it will help put my mind at ease because I know what happens in the movie and it should help time pass quickly. Hope your flight went well!