Situational anxiety

Situational Anxiety

• Caused by a situation
• Like speaking before a new audience
• Firing an employee
• Interview

Trait Anxiety

• Internal anxiety an individual brings to a communication situation
• Feelings of inadequacy
• Fear of looking foolish

Situational Anxiety

• Perfectly normal
• Body's nervous system gives big shot of adrenaline, accelerates the heart rate
• Sends extra oxygen to the nervous system, hearts and muscles, dialates the eyes, raises the blood sugar and causes perspiration
• We should be grateful for this boost. Why?

Out Loud

Practice

• As close to the real thing, not just mentally rehearsing, do it repeatedly
• Tape or video yourself
• Stand while practicing
• In front of people
• Time it
• Take away 75% of anxiety

Time it

• https://www.online-stopwatch.com/ countdown app timer clock on phone kitchen timer

The Name Game

What's the story of your name?

Would you change your first name and why?

Hope to get married one day?

• keep original name?
• hyphenated last name?
• or any other?

Have you chosen names for future children?