The Fear of Judgement

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Avoiding social situations may temporarily relieve anxiety, but it is not sustainable or healthy. Deep social connections are important for our mood and well-being. Avoidance only increases future fear and prevents us from challenging negative thoughts. We need vulnerability and meaningful relationships, despite the judgments of others. Remember, people are not thinking about us as much as we think they are. We are innately egocentric.

Each of us deals with feelings of embarrassment, awkwardness and feeling social self conscious every now and then. But social anxiety can cause us a level of emotional, mental and physical discomfort that disrupts out ability to build authentic connection and can hold us back. In this episode we break down the psychology of social anxiety, particularly deconstructing the belief that everyone is judging us or that the opinions of others matter. We look at the distinction between everyday anxiety and a social phobia, the links to perfectionism and overthinking and methods for managing our social anxiety including the "so what" mentality and treating our anxiety like excitement rather than fear to allow us to pursue social authenticity over perfectionism. All that and more, listen now!

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