Coaching practices for How to Get Over Speech Anxiety

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• The hardest moments are the joins and the exits
• There’s a big thing coming up
• Every time I dodge a social thing I feel relief in the moment, but the next one feels even scarier
• I keep dodging the things that scare me
• Right before the test or the big moment, my head is so jammed with what-ifs and dread that there’s no room left to actually think

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. 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
3. Use graduated social exposure
   Start with low-stakes social interactions and systematically increase difficulty.
   Overcoming Shyness: Philip Zimbardo’s Framework
4. Behavioral experiments
   Test an anxious prediction in real life and compare what you feared with what happened.
   The Anxiety Toolkit, Made Practical
5. 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
6. Use paradoxical intention for performance anxiety
   Before a performance, commit to performing as badly as possible — notice what happens to the anxiety.
   Logotherapy: Paradoxical Intention
7. 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
8. Balanced, compassionate self-talk
   Talk to yourself as you would to a friend — accurate and kind, not harsh or falsely cheery.
   The Anxiety Toolkit, Made Practical
9. Use voice pacing and tone as accessible, real-time confidence levers
   Speaking slowly, at moderate volume, with deliberate pauses signals confidence to listeners — and partially to yourself.
   Power Posing Revisited
10. Test worry predictions with small behavioural experiments
    Treat a feared outcome as a hypothesis and design a small real-world test.
    The Worry Tree

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