Anna Morris
@klusya
Need some tips on confrontation anxiety. I've been dreading a difficult talk I might have soon, and the anxiety just made me procrastinate all evening 🙄 There have to be ways to work with it, right? I usually fight anxiety by finding a solution to the problem, but this time I don't see a problem to solve.
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Tyler Branch
@photo
Doing hard things has always been my North Star. When you’re on the other side you’ll be a better person and stronger as a result. While not easy it is the greater way. On a practical note, breathe work and meditation has always helped me. Learning to let go is critical.
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Manish Kumar Singh
@manishks.eth
From personal experience I have found that it is better to just do it. Of course I don't know of the task you speak of but if given a choice to do something hard or easy(like running away from it) choose the hard way. This has worked for me.
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Michael 🎩🐹
@michaelsullivan
Usually it's tied to self-worth. Always a good idea to ask yourself why you feel you don't have the worth to ask for what you want (in general).
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
This isn’t necessarily helpful or what you want to hear, but I’ve never really been able to handle any “pre-show jitters” or anxiety by anything other than getting to the “performance” as fast as possible. Having the talk (or committing to NOT having it) would be the only thing I could do 🫠🫠🫠
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Strawberry
@strawberry
This book helped me so much with anxiety around talks and we’ll pretty much everything. Perhaps you may find some support here too: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40109367-dare-to-lead
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adrienne
@adrienne
I read this book 20 years ago and it was a game changer for me It takes mad courage but it’s almost always better to confront than to avoid. 💜💜 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/15014
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Father Morwen
@rev-morwen.eth
I currently work as a customer service rep. As an aspie and a massive introvert, talking to random strangers every day for 8 hours straight gives me terrible social anxiety. Honestly, the best way I could find to deal with it is to go with the punches and get used to the feeling.
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Ben
@benersing
That's tough. Meditation is good. Learing to accept and acknowledge discomfort rather than fight it, also helps.
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