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Dr. Ellen Hendriksen on Social Anxiety

April 30, 2019 1 Comment

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Dr. Ellen Hendriksen is a clinical psychologist who helps millions calm their anxiety and be their authentic selves through her award-winning podcast, The Savvy Psychologist, and in the clinic at Boston University’s Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders. In this episode, she and Eric discuss her debut book is, How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety. If you suffer from social anxiety, you will learn a lot of practical tools to use to help you overcome it and suffer less.

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In This Interview, Dr. Ellen Hendriksen and I Discuss…

  • Dr. Ellen Hendriksen’s book, How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety
  • The positive qualities that often accompany social anxiety in a person
  • That the opposite of social anxiety is actually psychopathy
  • The neuroscience of social anxiety
  • How if you face your fears you can change your brain
  • The problematic nature of avoidance when it comes to social anxiety 
  • Overt avoidance and covert avoidance
  • Thinking that the worst case scenario is a foregone conclusion
  • Avoidance means we never see what actually happens
  • The inner critic
  • The buckets that the Inner Critic likes to attack: Appearance, the Signs of Anxiety Themselves, Social Skills, One’s Entire Personality
  • Social Anxiety Mad Libs: When I ______, it will become obvious that I _______
  • The tool, Replace
  • Anxiety is vague – ask, what particular thing are you afraid of?
  • 4 Magic Questions: What’s the worst that can happen? How bad is that? What are the odds that the worst case scenario will actually happen? How will I cope?/What will I do?
  • The tool, Embrace
  • The role of mindfulness in anxiety
  • Having self compassion in addition to making your inner world a kinder, more hospitable environment
  • Creating structure in our social situations – giving yourself a mission to fulfill, a purpose, a goal

To learn more about Dr. Ellen Hendrisken, visit:

ellenhendriksen.com

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If you liked this conversation with Dr. Ellen Hendriksen, you might also enjoy these other episodes:

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Filed Under: Anxiety & Depression, Featured, Podcast Episode Tagged With: social anxiety

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  1. Mark Sellet says

    May 11, 2020 at 8:16 pm

    Just spoke with Eric today, thank you very much for knowledge, ideas and guidance. Than listened podcast 278. and found some great things to practice and implement.

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