Rising Above Social Anxiety

Are you one of the 40% of people who consider themselves shy? If you get nervous in social situations, this course will help you overcome social anxiety and finally be your true self. Weaving together cutting-edge science, concrete exercises, and compassionate encouragement from a teacher who has walked in your shoes, this course will help you develop confidence, feel comfortable in any situation, and finally come home to your true, courageous, and authentic self.

Lección 1: The Truth About Social Anxiety

Social anxiety is seeing ourselves in a distorted way and believing that distortion to be the truth. But the real truth is that you are already enough as you are. You are all you need to be. In Day 1, we'll explore the concept of The Reveal and remind ourselves that social anxiety is a package deal that comes bundled with strengths that won't fade even as social anxiety lessens.

Lección 2: The Two Lies Of Social Anxiety

Today we'll talk about why social anxiety sticks around over years (and even decades), the two lies of social anxiety, the myths and truths of confidence, and we'll create your Challenge List, a concrete list of things you’d be doing if you were living the life you want.

Lección 3: How To Aim Your Attention Spotlight

Your attention is a spotlight, and you decide where to aim it. When we feel anxious, we unconsciously turn the spotlight inward, highlighting our worried thoughts, our anxious bodies, and how we think the situation is going (where the Inner Critic is guaranteed to tell you you're bombing). In Day 3, we'll learn how and why to focus outward.

Lección 4: How To Challenge Your Inner Critic

Ever see the bumper sticker: "Don't believe everything you think"? In Day 4, we'll learn how to catch a thought, plus four ways to challenge your Inner Critic's shouts and murmurs.

Lección 5: Give Yourself A Mission

In Day 5, we'll tackle two topics. First, we'll touch on self-compassion and how to talk more kindly to ourselves. We can't grow in a punitive environment, so we'll learn to support ourselves as we stretch and change. Next, anxiety is driven by uncertainty, so we'll learn to increase certainty by giving ourselves some structure - a fulfilling mission, should we choose to accept it.

Lección 6: How To Roll Back Our Perfectionism

Perfectionism is a bit of a misnomer, because it isn’t necessarily about being perfect; instead, it’s about never being good enough. In Day 6, we'll roll back our expectations of social perfection and discover that when we loosen our grip on our rules, we're safer and happier than we ever expected.

Lección 7: Letting Go Of Our Safety Behaviors

Safety behaviors are actions we take to conceal our perceived inadequacies, like wearing sunglasses indoors, talking to the floor, or scrolling through Twitter so we look busy. We use them to hide, to try to blend in, and to feel safer, but they actually send an unintended message. Furthermore, dropping our safety behaviors allows us to look and feel more comfortable and more connected. In Day 7, we'll practice letting go of our safety behavior habits.

Lección 8: Why How You Feel Isn't How You Look

Today, in Day 8, we'll investigate three different cognitive biases that perpetuate the myth that we broadcast our anxiety for all to see. Plus, we'll use the phone in our pocket to gather some helpful evidence that how we feel isn't how we look.

Lección 9: All You Have To Be Is Kind

In today's lesson, we'll talk about connection and three things that bring us together: repetition, disclosure, and initiative. Plus, why friends are made, not found, and why that's good news.

Lección 10: Putting It All Together

On this final day of our course, we'll wrap up all our tools with a nice big bow and answer some FAQs about how to tell the difference between avoidance and simply not wanting to do something, how to support a friend with social anxiety, and more! Prepare to welcome your new life.

Reviews

I love a good structured course and this one didn’t disappoint! Lots of information, easy to understand and high production quality. Thank you :)

I really appreciate the bite sized ideas and challenges presented in this course and I got a lot out of it.

Thank you Ellen for this course. I listened to all 10 lessons and I learnt a great deal.

Thankyou. Great course with many actionable ideas.
Perfectly balanced in the sense that it feels challenging in a gentle, small steps way, with fantastic explanations as to how the science and research backs it up.

What a great course! Lots of scientific ways to alleviate social anxiety presented in a simple and understandable manner. Loved it!

Love the course with all the practical advice giving in a clear, concise manner, and with a little humor!! Thank you ! 💖🙏✨🧚‍♀️🦉���

I'm genuinely sad this course is over. I've listened and relistened multiple times - not ready for it to end. The insights and inspiration from this course was phenomenal! I can't brag enough about all I've gained from this course. I plan to continue replaying it often. Thank you so much!! 🤩😍❤

Thank you Dr. Ellen 💐
You have shared a wealth of knowledge and given a toolkit full of insights and ways to manage and overcome social anxiety. So glad to have taken your course.

Some of the best advice I’ve ever heard on dealing with social anxiety and dealing with it at its root!

Excellent course, it really helped me understand my social anxiety and gave me some clear concrete steps to help me address the things causing my stress. Thank you!

Thank you for sharing this course! I recognized myself in many anxious behaviors from day one, I didn't know I have so much of them! And as the course advanced, the tools have helped very much, small changes are occurring and I'm happy to move to that unknown territory of confidence. While taking the course, I listened to a phrase that summarize the objective of it (as I see it): It's not about being less shy, it's about adding more confidence to our experience. Thank you again!! I enjoyed this very much 🤍

Brilliant Courase and wonderful instructor. I listened to each lesson more than 5 times and took note. Thank you so much for helping me move forward.

This course is full of information and tools for overcoming social anxiety. My favorite nugget of info:you don't need to completely change yourself. Take a few of these tools to begin to grow into living the life you want for yourself. Thank you for presenting this information and course, Dr. Hendrikson!

Thank you. It was nice to be reminded that I am not alone. This course was exactly what I needed now.

Outstanding. Not really a meditation as much as a master class in managing social anxiety. I highly recommend and will listen again and again.

Excellent course. I learned a lot and feel much relief from social anxiety. Thank you 🙏🏾

Really glad I have completed this course. Will be going back to do some of the days again. Many thanks for everything put into this.

Such a wonderful course with lots of useful tips and tools for managing social anxiety. Thank you!

Top 10 best course!! I have gained so much insight and knowledge. Definite must save. Thank you 🙏

Wow!! Incridible course with so many helpful tools. Plenty of insights from this one! Thanks for making this course available 🙏🏼 May you be well 🪷