How Do I Overcome Performance Anxiety? The Fear Behind Performance
From What Your Therapist Thinks
This content addresses the challenges of overcoming performance anxiety, emphasizing the distinction between fearful thinking and excitement, and highlights the importance of understanding bodily responses. It also shares insights on mental health, previews upcoming content, and expresses gratitude for audience support, while teasing future engagement opportunities in Season 2.
Key Takeaways
- Hope may fuel dreams, but plans turn them into reality—no lottery ticket required.
- Anxious butterflies and excited jitters: the body's same dance to a different tune.
- Gaslighting isn't just a buzzword; it's a smoke show of misunderstandings online.
- Performance anxiety spans from sports fields to bedrooms—threat, perception, response.
- Season finales end, yet bonus episodes keep us tuning in for holiday survival tips.
Who is mentioned in this episode?
7 people come up, including Mary Shelley, Shelley Qualter, Felicia.
- Mary Shelley (Person)
- Shelley Qualter (Person)
- Felicia (Person)
- Felicia Keller Bole (Person)
- Christy Plantinga (Person)
- Shelly (Person)
- Esther Perel (Person)
Sponsors of this episode
- best therapist.com (show sponsor mention) (Sponsor)
- Roomba (sponsor mention) (Sponsor)
Mentioned in this episode
- Bob (Concept)
- Performance anxiety (Concept)
- best therapist.com (Company)
- CPTSD (Concept)
- Worry well (Concept)
- John (Concept)
- 93/7 rule (Concept)
- somatic therapy (Concept)
- Window of tolerance (Concept)
- Toxic Lady (Concept)
- Freeze response (Concept)
- Panic attack (Concept)
- Externalization (Concept)
- Parts work (Concept)
- University of Alberta (Company)
- AskMen (Company)
- Master ASIST (Concept)
- safeTALK (Concept)
- Center for Suicide Prevention (Company)
- CPTSD community on Reddit (Company)