Manual № 59 · Performance anxiety

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The manual for performance anxiety.

Presentations, exams, auditions, the big game. Your body under scrutiny, and how to steady it.

12 modules — for the person whose nerves fail them exactly when it counts

  1. 01What Happens When It Counts
  2. 02When It Tips Over: A Plan for the Bad Days
  3. 03Where Your Attention Goes
  4. 04The Predictions You Are Making
  5. 05What the Nerves Are Actually For
  6. 06The Things You Do to Feel Safer
  1. 07Doing It On Purpose
  2. 08The Routine Before You Start
  3. 09Practicing Under Load
  4. 10Choking, and Getting Out of Your Own Way
  5. 11The Replay, and Getting Back Up
  6. 12Staying Ready

Two editions

Themanual,orthemanualand the toolkit.

Standard edition

$39

The full program: all 12 modules, with the exercises, logs, and checklists that save as you go. Everything you need to do the work.

Elite edition · most complete

$69

Everything in Standard, plus The Toolkit, 14 techniques drawn from across the evidence base, each labeled with where it comes from and how strong the evidence behind it is. With original diagrams throughout.

Start with Standard if you would rather. You can upgrade to Elite at any time for the $30 difference, and nothing you have written is lost. And once you own one manual, every other one is 20% off.

Inside The Toolkit

  1. 01The Same Signal, Read Twice
  2. 02Where the Spotlight Points
  3. 03The Ladder
  4. 04Dropping the Props
  5. 05The Prediction Test
  6. 06How Bad Would It Actually Be
  7. 07The Three Minute Routine
  1. 08One Cue, Then Let It Run
  2. 09The Long Way Out
  3. 10Closing the Replay
  4. 11Room for the Nerves
  5. 12Rehearsing the Room
  6. 13What You Came For
  7. 14After a Bad One

Educational content — not therapy, diagnosis, or treatment, and not a substitute for a clinician when one is needed. Every manual opens with a safety page. If you are thinking about suicide, call or text 988 now.