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Overcome Testing Anxiety: Expert Tips To Ace Your Exams With Confidence with Shara Ruffin
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Are you struggling with testing anxiety and looking for effective ways to conquer it and perform your best during exams? This episode is for you!
In this episode of Anxious & Ambitious, we have a special guest, Shara Ruffin, Founder and CEO of "Journey To Licensure," a consulting company that combines wellness, clinical supervision, and professional development coaching to support social workers through the challenging licensure examination process.
We talk about…
How Shara’s personal journey with failing the licensing exams to be a Social Worker led her to founding her consulting company, “Journey To Licensure”
How getting a diagnosis of ADHD helped Shara to understand how she learns and pass her exams
How to overcome the fear and anxiety associated with testing
How to reframe your relationship with failure to regain confidence in your abilities after failed testing attempts
Understanding the thought-feeling-behavior cycle and how to leverage it to change your reaction to testing
How presence and mindfulness can help you to pass your exams
How to ground yourself and using your senses to move through stress somatically
Simple tools and tactics you can use to move through testing anxiety
How getting diagnosed & getting on medication to take care of her mental health
The power of your breath for connecting to your body and the present moment to calm your mind
Your breath as an anchor that holds your ship down in the storm of anxiety
Practices to do leading up to the exam to manage your testing anxiety ahead of time
Test day: what to do on the day of your test to set yourself up for success
What to do if you start to feel anxious mid-exam to refocus and finish strong
How to pace yourself and stop stressing about the time you have left on a test
The surprising key to overcoming test anxiety
How to condition yourself and train your mind
How to harness the most powerful tool you have to elevate your chances of testing success!
…and so much more!
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