121: Back to School Series: Social Anxiety Part 1

The Teen Life Coach

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4.6 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Feeling a little uneasy about heading back to school? I've got you! In this back to school series I will be covering the most common struggles about heading back to school. This week I cover what social anxiety is and how to start overcoming it. This is part one of three episodes about social anxiety. You are going to rock this year!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast.
0:09.1	I'm your host Sammy and today we are talking about social anxiety.
0:14.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the podcast today.
0:16.7	I am going to be doing a back-to-school series of podcasts coming up and today is the first episode.
0:24.9	I really want to help you all with starting school and having a successful school year this year.
0:31.3	So this series of episodes is designed to help you get started in the best way possible.
0:37.1	And these episodes are also the things I coach on the most when it comes to school.
0:42.7	All right?
0:43.6	In the first part of this Back to School series, I'm going to do a few episodes on social anxiety
0:50.0	because social anxiety is the most common form of anxiety that people experience. And it typically
0:57.4	starts in your teens, you guys. And so many of you struggle with social anxiety. And a lot of times,
1:03.3	you don't even know you have it just because we get used to the way that our brains think.
1:08.7	All right. So really quick here, I want to make a distinction.
1:12.7	Social anxiety is not the same as being shy. Okay. So being shy is totally different.
1:18.9	All right. Social anxiety is also not the same as being an introvert. Okay.
1:24.3	Introverts actually like being by themselves and they get energy from being alone. It's a choice that
1:30.6	they make because they want to be alone and it doesn't bother them. Okay, with social anxiety,
1:35.3	we're actually avoiding situations so that we avoid feeling anxiety. And extroverts can still have social anxiety.
1:45.8	You can be really outgoing and get energized from being around others and still have
1:51.4	social anxiety.
1:52.6	Okay, so just because you're an extrovert does not mean that you don't have or experience
1:57.5	any social anxiety.
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