Where do you often experience anxiety? For some, endless video calls and texting have made in-person conversations feel difficult. For others, social anxiety comes up when they speak or interact in group settings. If you regularly have such experiences, you might consider confidence coaching for your social anxiety.
What social anxiety can look (and feel) like
These are some of the most common stories I hear from individuals who are grappling with social anxiety:
→ “My heart beats very fast. My stomach is churning. I sweat profusely. My face becomes flushed. I become very self-conscious about how I look.”
→ “I want to say something, but I over-think and end up staying silent.”
→ “I’m afraid of saying something wrong and looking foolish.”
→ “I cannot relax in group settings, both in meetings and when socialising with colleagues.”
→ “My mind goes blank and I don’t know what to say.”
→ “Small talk and social banter with colleagues makes me very nervous. I don’t know what to talk about other than work.“
Signs and symptoms of social anxiety
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- Nervousness, all the way to outright fear
- Heart palpitations
- Profuse sweating
- Unpleasant sensations in the abdomen area
- Emotional distress for social events
- Difficulty expressing oneself to a group
- Low confidence
Impact of Social Anxiety
The top 3 impacts of social anxiety that I’ve seen among my clients are:
1. Hinderance to career progression (usually because they become less visible at the workplace)
2. Lack of confidence and/or peace, due to constant overthinking and self-judgement.
3. Unable to start, or deepen relationships.
How confidence coaching can help social anxiety
Coaching can help to increase your confidence by coping better with your social anxiety. This is possible, because one of the main functions of coaching is to give you new awareness of yourself – how you think, feel and behave. Through this, you can better understand how your social anxiety emerges, and therefore, what you can do to better manage (or even eliminate) it.
Every coaching engagement is unique, because each client has different needs, weaknesses and strengths. However, there are processes that unfold every single time ⬇︎
- Through open exploration and in-depth reflection, we will uncover your blindspots.
- Once you can see the cause or nature of your issue, you might also be able to see how you can do things differently so you get different result.
- I can also guide you to try on new ways of saying or doing things, that are effective and feel authentic for you.
- Together, we will co-create new practices that you can adopt, to assimilate what you learn into your regular way of being.
- I will provide you with honest feedback which you can use to calibrate and fine-tune your new skills.
What coaching is
Coaching is a form of super-customised learning, focused solely on your needs. It is one of the most dignified forms of professional help, because you choose the topic, direction and depth of what you wish to work on.
In fact, my clients are NOT ‘broken’ in any way. They are capable, creative and self-initiated individuals who want to live out their full potential. Many of them are high-performers at their workplaces!
They just want support to help them hit their objectives more quickly and with less pain.
If taking ownership of your growth appeals to you, coaching is might be suitable for you.
WhatsApp me now, to find out how you and I can work together on your social anxiety and confidence.
"Everyone needs a coach."
~ Bill Gates