REPOSTED: When Mindfulness Doesn’t Work – Interview with Nathan Consedine by Kyle on January 13, 2016 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….

Social Phobia – A History Lesson by Kyle MacDonald in Social Anxiety, Social Phobia People sometimes ask me what’s the difference between Social Phobia and Social Anxiety?  Is one worse than the other?  Which one do I “have”? Well the short answer is there’s no difference.  The two terms are used interchangeably. But the real…

Fear of Fear by admin in Anxiety, Fear Anxiety is awful, no doubt about it.  And when we experience awful unpleasant things we get frightened and want to avoid them. But one of the real head-spinners of anxiety is how we become afraid of fear. What we’re talking about here is “secondary emotions”, when an emotion…

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…

The Anxiety Toolkit: Interview with Dr. Alice Boyes by Kyle MacDonald on June 3, 2015 This week on the Confident Mind Podcast I talk to Dr. Alice Boyes, a fellow New Zealander and former Clinical Psychologist, turned writer who now lives in Las Vegas.  She has had her research about couples published in leading international…

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…