Monitor your thinking for any anxiety-igniting thoughts. Replace anxiety-igniting thoughts with coping thoughts. Determine your life goals and what interferes with those goals. Identify triggers of fear and anxiety that interfere with your goals. Design exposure exercises that can modify your amygdala’s response to these triggers. Practice exposure

If I wanted to graduate from social anxiety school, I had to do interviews with no notes. I’d still give the interview the respect and preparation it deserved, but I needed to trust myself to remember the points I wanted to make. So when the opportunity to do a live radio interview came along, I let myself cringe for a minute (or an hour), then sai