Overcoming Social Anxiety

REPOSTED: Anxiety is Not a Disease by Kyle MacDonald on March 17, 2016 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…

Positive Affirmations Don’t Work by Kyle MacDonald on May 27, 2015 In this episode of “The Confident Mind,” I explore the self help idea of “positive affirmations”, why they don’t work, and how mindfulness skills can help us to more effectively deal with so called negative thinking patterns. To see more about my online treatment…

Three Types of Jobs for Someone With Social Anxiety by Kyle MacDonald in Social Anxiety at Work   I’ve written before about how to deal with social anxiety in the workplace and how to tackle job interviews when you have social anxiety – but what type of jobs should you go for in the first place?…

Inferiority (is) Complex by Kyle MacDonald in Mindfulness, Social Anxiety It’s a bit on an old idea now, but saying someone has an “inferiority complex” is one of those psychological terms that has made it into everyday language, but what does it actually mean? Technically inferiority complex is defined as: “…a lack of self-worth, a…

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…

Emotions Make Themselves True by admin in Mindfulness Emotions are cunning things.  You see if we feel something strongly enough, it just becomes true.  It makes sense as their job is to keep us alive, but if you’re prone to feeling things too strongly then it means that your emotions can dictate how you see…