REPOSTED: The Anxiety Trance: Interview with Mark Tyrrell by Kyle MacDonald on December 16, 2015 Over the next five weeks I’ll be taking a break for the Southern Hemisphere Christmas and Summer Holiday.  So each week I’ll be posting one of my interview podcasts from the last year.  New Episodes from the 20th January. Happy…

All Roads Lead to Rome by Kyle MacDonald on April 29, 2015 In this episode of “The Confident Mind,” I talk about how Mindfulness helps people overcome Social Anxiety, and how ultimately all treatments that “work” for Social Anxiety utilise the same process: helping us to better observe and understand the way our mind works. To…

Turning Forty by Kyle MacDonald on July 29, 2015 I turned forty this week, and I haven’t had a mid-life crisis but I did have a couple of experiences that got me thinking about the nature of fear and anxiety.  I talk about these experiences, and how mindfulness helps on this weeks episode of The…

Avoiding Avoidance (Video Blog) by admin on May 9, 2013 in Acceptance, Avoidance Avoiding anxiety and fear is hard work. It actually takes a lot of energy to keep those emotions away. What then starts to happen is that it increases our anxiety. We start to feel more anxious about feeling anxious, and that creates…

REPOSTED: Stop Watching the News by Kyle MacDonald on November 18, 2015 It seems a good week to re-visit this episode of the Confident Mind.  So if you missed it the first time around, enjoy… In this episode of “The Confident Mind,” I talk about how our mind is defined by what we pay attention to,…

This is a fantastic video that I recently found on the TED site (www.ted.com) “In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world,…