How To Get Over a Breakup 17 November 2015 Acceptance, Anger / Kyle MacDonald Breakups are tough. It’s not just the stuff of country and western ballads or soft-focus romantic comedies, it’s a visceral and often debilitating pain to end a relationship in which you’ve most likely invested a great deal of emotional energy. Even…

Drug test is quite vulnerable both for men and women. A lot of users are searching online for “Quick Fix Plus synthetic urine near me,” to pass a urine drug test. Some users are searching for alternative ways to beat a urine drug test. Are you a woman, who needs to pass a urine drug…

How Mindfulness Helps Reduce Social Anxiety – Infographic by Kyle MacDonald in Mindfulness Did you know that studies have proven how practising mindfulness for 10 minutes a day helps reduce anxiety in less than 8 weeks? So, how can you use mindfulness to your advantage? First you can incorporate it relatively informally into your every…

A Virtual Approach to Treating Social Anxiety 21 June 2015 Therapy / Kyle MacDonald Because the basis of the continuation of social anxiety is avoidance, most treatments include confronting the triggers for those anxieties or phobias (some of you reading this will know just what I am talking about here). The issue for therapists (me…

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…

The Egotist – Interview with Jesse Bogner by Kyle MacDonald on August 12, 2015 In this episode of The Confident Mind I talk with Jesse Bogner, a twenty-seven year old graduate of Bard College with a BA in Creative Writing.  He is an author, screenwriter, and blogger for Shatterproof. His latest book, The Egotist, tracks…