Is Our Internal Voice a Social Anxiety Friend or Foe? by Kyle MacDonald in Cognitive Based Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Social Anxiety We may not always be aware of it, but we go about our daily lives against a background of running commentary. Some of it is practical and useful like “I’ve got to post…

Social Anxiety Body Language (Video Blog) by Kyle MacDonald in in Public, Posture There’s a lot of information out there about social anxiety body language, how it affects your state of mind and emotions, and certain physical behaviours that are typical for people who suffer from social phobia. I think the first thing that we…

Anxiety Is Not A Disease by Kyle MacDonald on September 30, 2015 In this weeks episode of The Confident Mind I talk about the limits and dangers in thinking about anxiety as a “brain disease”, some of the research that shows it clearly isn’t a disease, and what we understand about what actually causes anxiety….

The Confident Mind – Social Anxiety Podcast https://www.overcomingsocialanxiety.com/ Welcome to The Confident Mind: the weekly Podcast of www.overcomingsocialanxiety.com, in which psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald explores the science, news and reality behind the use of mindfulness to help overcome social anxiety, social phobia and shyness. As well as having a relaxed and sometimes lighthearted look at the…

How to get Motivated by Kyle MacDonald on March 2, 2016 This week on the Confident Mind, it’s all about motivation: what it is and how to get more of it.  Or more specifically how mindfulness can help us overcome a lack of motivation, and do hard things.  I talk about the paradox of motivation,…

Fear of Failure by Kyle MacDonald on March 23, 2016 This week on the Confident Mind, I talk about failure, what it means and how fearing failure leads us to avoid engaging in activities.  I talk about how mindfulness can help us to be more open to the emotions that happen around failure, and how…