If you're anything like the 15 million other people struggling with social anxiety, there's a good chance that you've tried that advice already! (ummm...doesn't work!)
Yes, you may "be yourself" with family, friends, and colleagues but that's not the problem. Your problem has a name: It's called social anxiety.
Despite being surrounded by others who may also struggle with the same, you sometimes feel like you're the only one who's awkward or different... "too much" of something and "not enough" of another.
What if I told you there was another way you could relate to your social anxiety?
One where you felt confident, empowered, and at ease no matter what environment you were in or what is going on in your life?
Sound too good to be true?
I hear ya.
It wasn't that long ago that I was in the same boat as you...
Feeling crippled by my social anxiety and weighed down with the constant chatter of anxious thoughts in my head.
I canceled plans, changed my schedule, avoided conversations, declined invitations, let phone calls go to voicemail, made up many excuses and hid behind my husband at social events (not literally, but just about!).
And even when I mustered up the courage to attend a big social event, I'd sometimes turn the car around halfway there!
I was addicted to predictability.
Think you have problems?!
Believe me, I had all of them!
And worse, I noticed one of my kids was headed in the same direction.