The Confident Mind – Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness

Blow Your Own Horn – Interview with Dwight Dilon by Kyle MacDonald on July 22, 2015 In this weeks episode of The Confident Mind I talk to Dwight Dilon, “America’s Authority on Performance Anxiety”, about his career as a professional jazz trombonist, his own struggle with performance anxiety or “stage fright”, and the techniques he…

My New Column: Ask Me Your Questions! by Kyle MacDonald in PR 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 the column…

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…

What’s Your Compass? 10 September 2013 Goals, in Public, Social Anxiety, Social Phobia / Kyle MacDonald Anyone who has ever done “exposure therapy” for social anxiety disorder, or any anxiety for that matter, will know that it is hard. Some people give up on treatment at this point just because it is so hard. It…

Social Media Anxiety: The Good, Bad and the Ugly by Kyle MacDonald in Social Media Different World, Same Issues Very little has swept through our world quite as completely in recent centuries as social media. It’s quite likely you’ve come across this blog via Facebook, Twitter or Google+ and, if you think it’s in any…

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…