What on Earth is the Amygdala and How Is It Related to Social Anxiety? 2 November 2014 Anxiety, Meditation, Mindfulness / Kyle MacDonald The amygdalae are groups of nuclei in the temporal lobes of our brain which play a crucial role in processing decisions and emotions and consolidating memories. It is well known that the…
There’s no such thing as normal by Kyle MacDonald on December 9, 2015 This week on the Confident Mind I talk about “normal” and how as it’s an abstract concept, no one is actually normal. I explore how we all tend to act like out there, somewhere, are normal people that we are comparing ourselves…
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‘Don’t talk to strangers!’ you were told as a kid. That’s all very well, but now that you are all grown up, you actually have to talk to strangers all the time, be it in a social or professional context, when, really, you wish you didn’t have to! Human interaction is part of our everyday…
Social Phobia – A History Lesson by Kyle MacDonald in Social Anxiety, Social Phobia People sometimes ask me what’s the difference between Social Phobia and Social Anxiety? Is one worse than the other? Which one do I “have”? Well the short answer is there’s no difference. The two terms are used interchangeably. But the real…
My New Column: Ask Me Your Questions! 20 February 2016 PR / Kyle MacDonald I’m pretty excited about having been invited to be a regular weekly columnist for New Zealand’s biggest daily newspaper, the New Zealand Herald. This week I was interviewed and talked my views about therapy and what I hope to acheive with…
In the Limelight: How to Live With Stagefright 22 August 2015 / Public Speaking / Kyle MacDonald It’s traditional to start blogs on performance anxiety by running out a list of famous names of people who suffered from stage fright. And, sure, the fact that Adele, Barbara Streisand, Andrea Bocelli, Kim Basinger, Rod Stewart, Donny…
You Me and OCD – Interview with Kade and Jeremy by Kyle MacDonald on April 21, 2016 This week on The Confident Mind I talk with comedians Kade Nightingale and Jeremy Rolston about their new stand up comedy show “You, Me and O.C.D”. They’ve both been diagnosed with O.C.D which happens to have the silver…
This may seem like nonsense, but actually one of the best ways to cope with stress is to allow your self to feel a little bit of it, and to take on moderate and realistic challenges. In doing so we inoculate our body and our brain to stress. A lot of people who struggle with…
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