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…

REPOSTED: There’s no such thing as normal by Kyle MacDonald on May 26, 2016 This week on the Confident Mind I talk about “normal” and how as it’s an abstract concept, no one is actually normal.  I explore how we all tend to act like out there, somewhere, are normal people that we are comparing…

‘Don’t talk to strangers!’ you were told as a kid. That’s all very well, but now that you are all grown up, you actually have to talk to strangers all the time, be it in a social or professional context, when, really, you wish you didn’t have to! Human interaction is part of our everyday…

Why Should I care? by Kyle MacDonald on June 1, 2016 This week on the Confident Mind I talk about compassion, both for ourselves and others.  I explore how being able to feel compassion is vital for emotional health and how extending and challenging ourselves to feel compassion for others, also helps us be kinder…

What’s Your Mood Like Today? by Kyle MacDonald in Social Anxiety Someone once said to me that moods are the seasons and emotions are the weather.  You can have a sunny day in winter, but it’s still winter.  And it’s important to know the difference, because everyone has bad days, but if overall your mood…

There’s no such thing as normal by Kyle MacDonald on December 9, 2015 This week on the Confident Mind I talk about “normal” and how as it’s an abstract concept, no one is actually normal.  I explore how we all tend to act like out there, somewhere, are normal people that we are comparing ourselves…