When Willpower Won’t Work by Kyle MacDonald on July 1, 2015 In this episode of The Confident Mind Podcast I explore how willpower works, and doesn’t work, including some of the recent research on how to maximise willpower.  Included is a practical mindfulness exercise to help you better manage your willpower. To see more about…

The Social Anxiety Awkward Silence Moment by Kyle MacDonald in Silence Comfortable silence.  Awkward silence. Thoughtful silence. Angry silence. It might be a myth, but I’ve heard it said that the Native Aleutian people (Eskimos) have 400 words to describe snow.  As a therapist we probably have 200 words to describe silence. Generally though, for those…

Stop Watching the News by Kyle MacDonald on May 13, 2015 In this episode of “The Confident Mind,” I talk about how our mind is defined by what we pay attention to, and I use the research into the impact of watching daily television news broadcasts to illustrate the effects and how mindfulness enables us to…

What’s Your Compass? 10 September 2013 Goals, in Public, Social Anxiety, Social Phobia / Kyle MacDonald Anyone who has ever done “exposure therapy” for social anxiety disorder, or any anxiety for that matter, will know that it is hard. Some people give up on treatment at this point just because it is so hard. It…

Introducing “The Confident Mind” Podcast 23 April 2015 Podcast / Kyle MacDonald Well it’s here and I’m very excited about it – my new social anxiety podcast! I have called it “The Confident Mind”, and every week I will now be publishing a new podcast as well as my regular blog article. I’ll be interviewing…

‘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…