Coaching practices for How Do I Overcome Public Speaking Anxiety Without Experiencing it

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• The hardest moments are the joins and the exits
• The anxiety hits in the middle of a meeting or while I’m standing in line, and I can’t exactly close my eyes and name what I smell in front of everyone
• There’s a big thing coming up
• There’s a whole category of small things I quietly dodge
• Every time I dodge a social thing I feel relief in the moment, but the next one feels even scarier

Practices that may help

1. Build scripts for situation entry and transitions
   Prepare simple, natural openers and transitions so you’re not improvising from scratch under pressure.
   Overcoming Shyness: Philip Zimbardo’s Framework
2. Use a 30-second micro-grounding version for public settings
   In public or meetings, a single-sense version — three named things you can see — takes 30 seconds and shows nothing.
   The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique
3. Apply EFT to specific performance anxiety triggers
   EFT has the strongest self-guided evidence for test anxiety, public speaking, and sports performance stress.
   EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
4. Deliberately enter low-stakes discomfort
   Regularly choose small situations that trigger the target anxiety so the nervous system learns it is survivable.
   The Confidence–Competence Loop
5. Use graduated social exposure
   Start with low-stakes social interactions and systematically increase difficulty.
   Overcoming Shyness: Philip Zimbardo’s Framework
6. Add interoceptive rungs for bodily fear
   If you fear the physical sensations of anxiety itself, include exposures that deliberately induce them.
   The Fear Ladder: Graded Exposure Made Practical
7. Behavioral experiments
   Test an anxious prediction in real life and compare what you feared with what happened.
   The Anxiety Toolkit, Made Practical
8. Use deliberate re-exposure to reduce discomfort with avoided situations
   Repeated, safe exposure to a feared or avoided context reduces anxiety through habituation and familiarity.
   The Mere Exposure Effect, Made Practical
9. Set your posture before high-stakes moments
   Take a private moment to settle into a confident posture before a presentation or hard talk.
   Posture and Confidence, Honestly Explained
10. Write about your worries before a high-stakes performance
    Offload performance anxiety by writing it out in full immediately before the event.
    Choking Under Pressure, Made Practical

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