I'm also a befinning flier, an ol fa*t, but a new flier.
I had kind of lost some confidence recently, due to being away from it for a couple of weeks, and a couple of dumb thumb incidents previously. Seemed like I was going backwards on my learning curve. Today I finally got a couple of flights in and things were starting to come around. On my last flight of the day I had a dead stick. My instructor said, take it on in, you can do it, just focus on what you have learned so far. He was right, I did it and now my confidence is back. Experience is the second best teacher, a good instructor is the best. I'm lucky enough to be getting both.
As flyboy Dave said, now that I have done it I wont be so paranoid of it happening again.

Dwight Hayden