How to Manage Social Anxiety
What if I told you that everyone experiences social anxiety to a certain extent? When I tell this to my clients, I can see the active release of tension in their shoulders. Social anxiety is a normal human experience but unfortunately it has a special way of making people feel alone and isolated, which further enforces the anxiety feelings. When we begin to realize that this is not a unique experience that we feel, but in fact everyone has had a socially anxious experience, it starts to lessen the hold that anxiety has on our lives. I host a social anxiety group here at Insight and I have had client’s actively laugh in my face when I suggest the prospect of them joining the group. “A group full of socially anxious people” they say “That sounds horrible”. I get it, I really do. As a therapist, I also know that sometimes the most important thing to do when we feel anxious, depressed, overwhelmed is to do the exact opposite of what our mental state suggests. When we unders