Have you ever been preparing for an audition or had an interview with an agent and you suddenly have an attack of fear or doubt? There is a way to get over the FEAR!

How?

First, by recognizing what fear is and where it comes from. Second, fighting  it the moment it raises its ugly head.

A client recently called me in tears. She was delighted with the idea of re-branding herself and coming back into the acting business after a break to raise a family. Still beautiful and a vibrant and talented woman, she was in a panic… she was overwhelmed with the idea of getting new headshots, meeting new agents and auditioning when she hadn’t been “out there” in a while.

“Where does this morbid fear come from?” she asked. It comes from anticipation of failure and a negative outcome. It comes from the, “What if they don’t like me? What if the pictures turn out bad? What if I’m too old? What if I spend all this money and I can’t get an agent?”

Fear comes from living in a thought realm – an imagined future – that isn’t real. It’s only a thought. Sometimes it comes from the past-when things didn’t work out and the thought pattern of, “this bad thing is going to happen again” sets in. It’s negative energy stored in your memory. It’s also your primitive brain protecting you. It comes from the part of the brain we all have as humans. It’s called the mammalian or Lizard brain-the one that is always on edge waiting to be attacked, challenged, hurt, devoured!