Compassion in Performance
Emily emphasizes the importance of compassion when dealing with performance anxiety, highlighting that it's essential to acknowledge and accept feelings of nervousness rather than fighting them. She discusses how deeply embedded narratives can affect adults and stresses that addressing these issues takes time and patience. The conversation encourages athletes to understand that experiencing anxiety doesn't equate to a lack of mental toughness.In this clip
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The Running Explained Podcast
s4/e31 Where Does My Performance Anxiety Come From? (And How Can I Address It??) with Emily Perrin, LCSW
Related Questions
Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, stating that first you need to extinguish the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative. The whole point of that is to diminish the physiological response, right? If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning?
For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, and every time they see the spider or get activated through some trigger, they immediately use breathwork to calm their body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?