The Confident Mind - Social Anxiety Podcast

REPOSTED: The World in Black and White

First, apologies for not posting a new episode for a while.  Don’t worry, there will be more to come, but I’m involved in a big side project right now which has taken up all my extra time.  The Confident Mind will be back in a couple of weeks.  In the meantime… In this weeks episode of The Confident Mind I […] The post REPOSTED: The World in Black and White appeared first on Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness.

REPOSTED: Getting Stuck in Sadness

This week on the Confident Mind I talk about sadness and how one of the ways that depression happens is when we get stuck in sadness, and allow it to define our sense of ourselves. I discuss research that shows that when we practice mindfulness meditation it decreases our tendency to define ourselves by our emotions, […] The post REPOSTED: Getting Stuck in Sadness appeared first on Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness.

I, Robot

Have you ever felt like a robot? Like you’re responses are automatic, and out of your control?  This week on The Confident Mind I talk about how our emotional programming in childhood can leave us feeling as if we are trapped in certain patterns and ways of responding, and how mindfulness and therapy can enable […] The post I, Robot appeared first on Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness.

Don’t Look Up

This week on The Confident Mind I talk about how our tendency to “look up” at those who have more, creates anxiety and unhappiness.  In capitalism and western society our tendency to strive and want to be more successful fuels anxiety and insecurity, and ultimately creates “status anxiety.”  I talk about how to consciously switch […] The post Don’t Look Up appeared first on Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness.

REPOSTED: How to Increase Your Wellbeing: Interview with Aaron Jarden

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 and co-investigator of the Sovereign New Zealand Wellbeing Index. We talked about how to measure wellbeing, and […] The post REPOSTED: How to Increase Your Wellbeing: Interview with Aaron Jarden appeared first on Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness...