In today's episode we tackle the role of anxiety in football, how we can manage it and how it's not always a bad thing.

We also discuss how anxiety can lead us up the road to stress and even depression if we don't tackle it and make it work for us.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:00 - Working with the emotion, and not trying to "fix" it
02:30 - Episode overview
04:00 - Anxiety as an emotion, not a mood (and the difference)
05:30 - What to do if you are struggling, talk to someone
06:00 -  Anxiety is transient, it goes in and out, up and down
06:20 - The dreaded diagnosis
07:30 - Why you need anxiety
08:20 - Cognitive and Somatic anxiety
09:25 - Confidence, the saviour (in football)
10:30 - High confidence and ability mixed with anxiety can be positive
11:20 - How to be confident
11:40 - Rising to the occasion vs falling to your highest level of preparation
13:00 - What anxiety looks like in pre-competition
15:20 - Playing the "perfect" game vs acceptance of mistakes
16:00 - Working with anxiety, acceptance
16:30 - Setting realistic game metrics and using performance analysis
17:30 - Learning how to manage anxiety and stress
18:30 - 3 Management techniques
19:30 - Its not the exception, its the rule
20:00 - Start the conversation
21:00 - Get in touch!