Coaching practices for How to Get Over Pre Interview Anxiety

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• Right before I walk into the presentation I’m jittery and small, and I want a quiet minute on my own to physically settle into feeling steady and grounded, so all the prep I did actually shows up instead of getting swallowed by nerves.
• There’s a conversation coming up that I’m dreading, and I keep picturing it going fine and then getting blindsided in the moment by their pushback or my own panic
• It went fine, and now a voice says all that worry was a waste and I could ease off next time
• The hardest moments are the joins and the exits
• Right before something big, the people around me pile on the "you’ll be amazing, don’t worry"

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Cope-ahead planning for high-stakes interactions
   Rehearse a difficult conversation in detail — mentally and verbally — before it happens.
   DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness: Getting What You Need Without Destroying the Relationship
3. Debrief after performance without letting relief collapse the strategy
   After a successful performance, acknowledge the outcome honestly without abandoning the preparation habit that produced it.
   Defensive Pessimism, Made Practical
4. 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
5. Protect the strategy from well-meaning optimism
   Recognize that others’ "positive thinking" attempts before your performance will disrupt your preparation — and manage that proactively.
   Defensive Pessimism, Made Practical
6. 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
7. Create a pre-performance ritual that includes posture
   A consistent pre-performance ritual — including posture — reduces anxiety and improves performance more reliably than any single element.
   Power Posing Revisited
8. Havening to clear pre-performance anxiety
   Run a short havening sequence before a high-stakes event to lower physiological anxiety.
   Self-Havening: Calming the Nervous System Through Touch
9. 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
10. Map your safety-behavior inventory
    List every action you take to prevent feared outcomes in anxiety-provoking situations.
    Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical

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