Coaching practices for Not Fleeing Panic

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• The instant it hits in a store or a meeting, the only thought is get out now
• The pull to bolt for the door feels less like a feeling and more like a command I have no choice but to obey
• I try to white-knuckle through it by distracting myself or looking away from what my body’s doing, but the dread of the racing heart never actually gets disproven that way
• I’ll force myself into the scary thing, but the second the panic peaks I bolt for the exit because it feels unbearable
• I’ve built up all these little rituals to get through it

Practices that may help

1. Stay in the situation for the full arc
   Leave only after the attack has peaked and begun to subside — not in the middle, no matter how strong the urge.
   Panic Surfing
2. Surf the escape urge without acting on it
   Treat the urge to flee as a wave — it rises, peaks, and falls without requiring your action.
   Panic Surfing
3. Use somatic tracking instead of distraction
   Observe sensations with neutral curiosity rather than distracting from them — the curiosity interrupts the threat appraisal.
   Panic Surfing
4. Panic Surfing
   Panic surfing is the practice of allowing panic to peak and pass without fighting it, fleeing the situation, or using safety behaviors — based on the understanding that panic attacks are physiologically self-limiting and cannot escalate indefinitely. The approach is drawn from panic treatment research and from acceptance-based models; it is one of the most effective behavioral components of modern panic disorder treatment.
5. Stay in the situation until anxiety drops
   Remain in the feared situation long enough for distress to fall — leaving early teaches the wrong lesson.
   The Fear Ladder: Graded Exposure Made Practical
6. Identify and reduce safety behaviors
   Notice the things you do to prevent catastrophe during panic — and experiment with dropping them.
   The Clark Panic Model, Made Practical
7. Use the dive reflex as a first-response to panic
   When panic peaks and cognitive tools fail, cold water on the face gives the body a hardwired override.
   The Dive Reflex, Made Practical
8. Allow the sensations instead of fighting them
   Do not try to stop the racing heart, the dizziness, the breathlessness — allow them and observe.
   Panic Surfing
9. Approach avoided situations systematically (in vivo exposure)
   Deliberately enter feared but objectively safe situations, stay long enough for fear to reduce, and repeat.
   Prolonged Exposure Therapy: Principles, Practices, and the Evidence
10. Run a behavioral experiment to test the catastrophic prediction
    Treat the catastrophic belief as a testable hypothesis and design a real-world test.
    The Clark Panic Model, Made Practical

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