Understanding Your Brain's Influence on Your Emotions

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Your brain sometimes lies to you. Treat your emotions as friendly creatures giving advice rather than truth. Worry and anxiety may come from past hurts, but remember that you survived. The brain tries to protect us by applying past events to similar scenarios, but it can't predict the future. You are not your emotions or your past. Instead of saying 'I'm embarrassing or awkward or cringe,' say 'That situation made me feel anxious, but that's not who I am.' Repeat these affirmations to yourself when needed.

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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