What you are dealing with is real. It is not silly. It is not weak. It is not something you should be over by now. It is one of the most common, most physically intense, most identity-shaking fears a human being can have.
What you are dealing with is real. It is not silly. It is not weak. It is not something you should be over by now. It is one of the most common, most physically intense, most identity-shaking fears a human being can have. And almost nobody understands what it actually feels like for you. They see a meeting room. They see a presentation. They see a classroom. They cannot understand why your hands are shaking. Why your mouth has gone dry. Why your voice has decided to come out as a thin, unsteady thing that does not sound like you. Why your heart is pounding so hard that you are sure everyone can see it through your shirt. This fear has cost you. The promotion you did not pursue because it required more presenting. The job you turned down. The conference you did not submit to. The classroom you sat silent in for an entire semester. The meetings where you had a brilliant idea but said nothing. Hear me clearly. You are not weak. Your ancient brain decided you were in danger when many eyes turned toward you, and it prepared your body to fight a tiger. The reason you cannot logic your way out of this fear is that it does not live in the part of your brain that responds to logic. It lives in the amygdala. In the world your ancestors lived in, being stared at by many sets of eyes at the same time meant one thing. You were either being challenged by your tribe, or being stalked by predators. Either way, it was a survival threat. Your amygdala has not updated. Knowing the audience is friendly has not helped, because all that knowledge is happening in the wrong part of the brain. To rewire the response, we have to reach the layer where the response lives. The subconscious. For the next four hours you will not be lectured. You will not be shamed. You will be guided gently into the deeply relaxed state where your subconscious opens, and 200 carefully crafted affirmations will begin to retrain your nervous system at the level fear actually fires.
Fear of Public Speaking Hypnosis: Overcome Glossophobia and Fear of Public Speaking, Calm Anxiety Before Presentations, and Speak with Confidence in Any Room with Deep Guided Meditation and Powerful Affirmations is available as an audiobook on Apple Books. We haven't confirmed it on Spotify yet — but you can still search there below.
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