How to Not Procrastinate by Kyle MacDonald on May 5, 2016 This week on the Confident Mind I talk about procrastination, what it is, what makes some people more prone to experience it and some easy to implement strategies, mindfulness based of course, to overcome it. To see more about my online treatment program to…

Almost everyone finds job interviews anxiety-provoking to an extent. People that suffer from social anxiety can have a difficult time landing jobs. Many interviewers misinterpret signs of anxiety during a job interview for lack of competencies. It can be pretty upsetting. But there is good news for people that have difficulty with social anxiety and…

What is Anxiety? by admin in Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Social Phobia Anxiety is simply defined as fear in the absence of anything to be afraid of, but how do we understand that? Firstly, let’s take a look at what fear is… All emotions have a reason for existing and generally that is to quickly and…

Reposted: Online Therapy: Interview with Dr. John Grohol of psychcentral.com by Kyle MacDonald on December 23, 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…

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…

How Not to Use Facebook by Kyle MacDonald on February 24, 2016 This week on the Confident Mind I talk about research that suggests that Facebook use is related to depression, and how a recent study suggests that these results are driven by the impact of social comparisons.  I explore what social comparisons are and…