Good for you for singing in a fundraiser!!

How can you get past this? By doing it each and every time and realizing that the folks most likely do not have that must interest invested in your life. That is NOT meant to sound cold but rather the cognitive thought used to fight the distortion that others are overly interested in our lives. Most people are thinking about their lost pensions or inability to maintain health insurance or whether or not their therapist's last comment was really true or just said to be nice or if they forgot to turn off the water outside....... When it comes down to it most folks are in their own worlds and our diseases/disorders lead us, mistakenly usually, to believe more than is true.

We're not saying you are perceiving inaccurately but that it could be a possibility. Hope we're communicating that effectively (feeling foot in mouth attack coming on)

We're sorry you felt so uncomfortable by this time between performance and encore. We believe you will get past this in time with support. Thank you for writing here about it.

kindly,
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