Coaching practices for I've Built Up All These Little Rituals to Get Through it I Sit Down the Instant I Feel Dizzy I Keep Checking My Pulse I Always Know Where the Exit is and I Half Believe Those Are the Only Reasons Nothing Terrible Has Happened Yet
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’ve built up all these little rituals to get through it
- I’ve got all these little things I do to get through anxious moments
- I only get through hard moments by clutching my little crutches
- I’ve got all these little rules that keep me okay
- The danger is over but my body hasn’t caught up
Practices that may help
- 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 - Map your safety-behavior inventory
List every action you take to prevent feared outcomes in anxiety-provoking situations.
Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical - Run exposures without safety behaviors
Do induction exercises while deliberately leaving out the coping props you normally rely on.
Interoceptive Exposure for Panic - Drop the safety behaviors
Let go of the small avoidances and crutches you use to feel "safe" from anxiety.
The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical - Orienting to your surroundings
Slowly turn your head and let your eyes land on the room, signaling that the present is safe.
Grounding Techniques for Acute Distress - Use somatic tracking instead of distraction
Observe sensations with neutral curiosity rather than distracting from them — the curiosity interrupts the threat appraisal.
Panic Surfing - Design your pre-performance sequence with clear functional anchors
Build a sequence where every step serves a specific psychological function — not just habit.
Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical - Engage with the present moment
Once the edge comes off, redirect attention fully into an activity or your surroundings.
The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical - Post-induction body scan to observe without catastrophizing
After inducing sensations, scan the body with curiosity rather than alarm.
Interoceptive Exposure for Panic - Hyperventilation induction exercise
Breathe rapidly through the mouth for 60 seconds to produce dizziness and breathlessness — then stay with it.
Interoceptive Exposure for Panic
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Gradually reduce how often you seek reassurance from others that the feared thing won't happen.
Fade reassurance-seeking
- When Safety Behavior Fading Prevention Vs Coping Reframe
Shift the goal of entering feared situations from preventing disaster to practicing tolerance.
Reframe from "preventing catastrophe" to "coping with discomfort"
- Allow Panic Feelings
Reproduce the physical sensations of panic in a safe, controlled way to break the sensation-fear link.
Interoceptive exposure: deliberately induce the feared sensations
- Allow Panic Sensations
Reproduce the physical sensations of panic in a safe, controlled way to break the sensation-fear link.
- Calm Down From Panic
When you are over the top edge, use the body to bring arousal back down.
Come down from hyperarousal
- Get Back To Life After Panic
Once the edge comes off, redirect attention fully into an activity or your surroundings.
Engage with the present moment
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