S6E05 - Performance Anxiety for Practitioners: How to somatically shift the stress of ‘showing up’

Have you ever felt a subtle sense of anxiety in the lead-up to a
‘performance’?


 


Maybe in the hours, days, or weeks before you had to show up and
coach, speak, facilitate or express yourself to the world.


 


Performance anxiety, for practitioners, is common. 


 


I know this place myself. After coming back from a 6-month break
in coaching after the birth of my first child, I noticed a
resurgence of performance anxiety before coaching sessions and
teaching calls. It was an old experience that returned strongly.
All aspects of my coaching ‘performance’ were impacted, coaching,
teaching, selling/enrolling clients, and expression. 


 


Performance anxiety doesn’t feel good. It’s not useful, or
sustainable.


 


It draws our attention and energy away from that which we truly
desire-intimacy & vulnerability in the way we show up.


 


So how do we relax our performance anxiety? How do we shift it
into something more fruitful?


 


In today’s podcast, we’re unpacking performance anxiety to
understand:


How performance anxiety has/does show up for me

The (often unexamined) internal expectations holding our
adrenals ransom

The role of ‘professionalism’ & what shape it creates
somatically

What I (now) do instead

The practices I use before & after a coaching
‘performance’ to shift anxiety into intimacy



 


Anyone who experiences subtle or strong performance anxiety will
enjoy this podcast. If you’re a coach/practitioner working in
somatic ways, then you even more so.


 


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Resources mentioned in this podcast:


 


Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown

2022 Excellence In Coaching Celebration

Primal Feminine Flow - An at-home, feminine embodiment
movement practice to resensitize the body

Feminine Embodiment Coaching - an emotional embodiment &
vulnerability-based professional training for coaches

School of Embodied Arts

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