Rebecca Yarnold 7/24/26 Rebecca Yarnold 7/24/26

With a Little Help from My Friends

Week 1: eight strangers in a room. Week 8: eight singers touching shoulders in the wings. What was built between them — and the three mechanisms that made peer connection a resource for anxiety itself.

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Big Picture

The findings begin here. Across eight weeks with eight young singers, performance anxiety eased not child by child, but as their community changed. Read Post 9.

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The Riddle

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Lean on me

Behind every helpful thing we say to a nervous young singer, there are researchers who spent decades figuring out what works. Post 6 is a thank-you to them — and an introduction to the quieter places where my doctoral research joins the conversation.