How to Overcome Public Speaking Anxiety?

A physical thing you might try is finding something to fidget with. And also, chewing gum. Your brain basically goes into fight or flight when you’re anxious. Even if there isn’t any physical threat, your brain reads your nervousness as if there was one. So, if you chew gum you trick your brain into thinking you’re eating something. And your brain thinks that if there was, let’s say, a tiger in front of you, you wouldn’t stop to eat something because there’s a threat. So your brain thinks that the threat is gone, so that’s why your ‘eating’. So, it calms down. I could see fidgeting would work the same way to sort of distract your brain from what it reads as a threat. Hope that makes sense lol. And hope this helps. :)

I would start by identifying the source of your anxiety in these situations. What is it that scares you most, and then try to find a new story to tell yourself where that fear isn’t the main focus. Does that make any sense?