Living Fully with Shyness and Social Anxiety A Comprehensive Guide to Gaining Social Confidence
Living Fully with Shyness and Social Anxiety A Comprehensive Guide to Gaining Social Confidence
From a distinguished mental health expert—a comprehensive, clearly organized handbook to living successfully with social anxiety and shyness
Anyone who has ever experienced anxiety in social situations knows how awkward, debilitating, and even painful it can be. Finding good professional advice on how to manage it is not always easy. In Living Fully with Shyness and Social Anxiety, therapist and mental health expert Erika B. Hilliard offers a comprehensive guide to living successfully and confidently with such conditions. In clear, reassuring language, she covers in depth all of the relevant subjects, including:
• Calming the body • Blushing • Eye contact • Body language • Cultivating positive thoughts • Medications • The power of imagination • Effective goal-setting • Shy bladder syndrome • Acing job interviews and presentations • Connecting with others
This is the most thorough resource for everyone looking for an honest, supremely helpful guide to gaining social confidence.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Great self help book
This was a very well written book, with no questions left unanswered. It helped me immensely in dealing with social anxiety and shyness, and I’ve incorporated alot of the suggestions into my daily life. It turned out to be more of a “self help” book than I expected in more areas than just shyness. It has helped me extremely. The author had experience in social anxiety, so she really hit home with things she expressed.
5 Stars HELP WITH SHYNESS
Great book - really helped my client who had big time problems with shyness - I am a psychotherapist and this is the best I’ve found.
4 Stars Comforting Information
This book contains all you ever wanted to know about social anxiety, and is sure to help you understand the condition. However, I would have preferred more focus on solutions rather than so much reaching (about 300 pages). I might suggest starting with a shorter book or course (I used the program at mc2method.com which was great), and then reinforce your efforts by following up with this book. Good luck!
3 Stars A bit trite
I was hoping this book would explore shyness in more depth and reveal deeper insights about its roots in the psyche. It was rated well, so I bought it, and I’ve found it hasn’t really helped my understanding much. I feel like I could have writtten a lot of it from the knowledge I already have. I would recommend Feeling Good(if you haven’t read it) by David Burns over this because I think it is a more direct and practical guide that more broadly and thoroughly addresses anxiety and depression.
5 Stars Read this book!
If you are going to buy only one book on social anxiety, this is it. This book that not only compassionately presents various perspectives on social anxiety, but it also offers a vast array of solutions. These solutions are divided into easy to follow areas of mind, body and action. Once you’ve figured out how social anxiety affects you most, you can choose exactly which solutions suit you best. For extra guidance, there’s an excellent appendix item full of goals that you can choose from, again, divided into areas of body, mind and action. I highly recommend this book.
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