REPOSTED: How to Increase Your Wellbeing: Interview with Aaron Jarden by Kyle MacDonald on July 7, 2016 On The Confident Mind this week I spoke with Aaron Jarden.  Aaron is a Senior Lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology, President of the New Zealand Association of Positive Psychology, lead investigator for the International Wellbeing Study…

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…

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…

8 Steps to Making Smalltalk by Kyle MacDonald in in Public The art of aimless chatter may be something most people take for granted, but for those of you living with social anxiety it can be the hardest part of life to master. First of all you are acutely aware that you’re not talking part…

My New Column: Ask Me Your Questions! 20 February 2016 PR / Kyle MacDonald I’m pretty excited about having been invited to be a regular weekly columnist for New Zealand’s biggest daily newspaper, the New Zealand Herald. This week I was interviewed and talked my views about therapy and what I hope to acheive with…

Join Us for a Tweet Chat on May 12th and Help Break the Stigma! by Kyle MacDonald on May 9, 2015 in Mental Health 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…