Coaching practices for De Activation Anxiety Strategies
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Right before I go on, my heart’s pounding, my hands are shaking, my mind’s gone tunnel-narrow and blank
- The second they go quiet or take too long to reply, something in me lights up and I can’t sit still
- I’m about to do something that matters and I just feel flat and half-asleep
- I spend my days bracing for the next wave of it, scanning my body, dreading the moment it shows up
- When I’m anxious about something, people keep telling me "it’ll be fine, don’t worry" and it does absolutely nothing
Practices that may help
- De-activation Strategies for Over-Arousal
Use targeted techniques to reduce arousal when anxiety or over-activation is undermining performance.
The Yerkes-Dodson Law: Finding Your Optimal Performance Zone - Regulate the anxious protest response
For anxious activation, soothe the alarm before acting on the urge to pursue or test.
Attachment Theory, Made Usable - Activation Strategies for Under-Arousal
Use brief, targeted techniques to raise activation when you’re too flat to perform well.
The Yerkes-Dodson Law: Finding Your Optimal Performance Zone - Run toward the feeling
Actively invite more of the anxiety rather than waiting nervously for it to pass.
The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical - Manage prevention-focus anxiety through action, not reassurance
Prevention-focused anxiety is reduced most effectively by taking the vigilant action that addresses the threat, not by telling yourself nothing is wrong.
Regulatory Focus Theory: Promotion vs Prevention Thinking - Reduce covert mental safety behaviors
Identify and fade the mental acts — rehearsing, planning, distraction — that serve the same function as overt avoidance.
Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical - Combine worry exposure with relaxation skill
After the exposure period, apply a relaxation practice to close each session with a deactivation phase.
Worry Exposure, Made Practical - Rapid relaxation: achieve a relaxation response in 20–30 seconds
Deploy a practiced, condensed relaxation sequence the moment anxiety begins rising.
Applied Relaxation, Made Practical - Rehearse the response before you need it
Learn and practice the four steps in low-stakes moments so they are available under pressure.
The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical - Use grounding before anxiety peaks, not after
Start the technique at the first sign of anxiety — not once the wave is overwhelming.
The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique
Related concerns
- Early Intervention Anxiety
Start the technique at the first sign of anxiety — not once the wave is overwhelming.
Use grounding before anxiety peaks, not after
- Preventing Anxiety Relapse
Once the edge comes off, redirect attention fully into an activity or your surroundings.
Engage with the present moment
- Anxiety And Action
Prevention-focused anxiety is reduced most effectively by taking the vigilant action that addresses the threat, not by telling yourself nothing is wrong.
Manage prevention-focus anxiety through action, not reassurance
- Anxiety Attack At Work Caused By Colleague How To Handle
Update your manager on important work before they ask — in the format and frequency they actually want.
Send proactive, brief status updates
- Anxiety Avoidance Treatment
List all the situations you avoid because of anxiety, from least to most frightening, then work up the list.
Build an avoidance hierarchy and work through it systematically
- How Do I Deal With Extreme Anxiety
Actively invite more of the anxiety rather than waiting nervously for it to pass.
Run toward the feeling
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