Why is that if you break your arm, people start writing witty comments on the cast and holding the door open for you, but when you admit to having a mental illness, they often shy away from you or worry what to say when you’re around? The simple fact is that having a broken arm
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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…
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…
How to do hard things by Kyle MacDonald on October 28, 2015 On this weeks episode of the Confident Mind Podcast, I talk about how I’ve taken the week off to start a project I’ve been procrastinating about for quite some time. It got me thinking about the role of anxiety and avoidance in procrastination,…
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…
The Serotonin Mystery: How Does Too Much Make You Anxious? by Kyle MacDonald in Anxiety A lot of the treatments for anxiety and depression have sought to raise levels of serotonin – the chemical in the brain linked mostly to happiness and relaxation. Because of that, research has tended towards finding physical ways to reverse…
When Mindfulness Doesn’t Work – Interview with Nathan Consedine by Kyle MacDonald on November 12, 2015 This week on the Confident Mind I talk with Nathan Consedine about the research into the limits of mindfulness. He is as an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and has…