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.
Mentioned in This Episode
- Bob (concept)
- Performance anxiety (concept)
- Mary Shelley (person)
- best therapist.com (company)
- Shelley Qualter (person)
- CPTSD (concept)
- Worry well (concept)
- Felicia Keller Bole (person)
- Felicia (person)
- John (concept)
- Toxic Lady (concept)
- Christy Plantinga (person)
- somatic therapy (concept)
- Window of tolerance (concept)
- Freeze response (concept)
- 93/7 rule (concept)
- What Your Therapist Thinks (WYTT) (company)
- Stage fright (concept)
- Sports psychology (concept)
- Roomba (sponsor mention) (sponsor)