In this is tiny leaps,

we talk about how you can deal with social anxiety.

Get excited because this is tiny leaps.

Big changes. Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps, Big Changes, where I share simple strategies you can use to get more out of your life.

My name is Greg Klunis and in this episode we're talking about social anxiety and what to do when you struggle with it, how to beat it, how to get past this thing in your life that is holding you back and holding you from meeting the people that could change your life.

So I'm super excited to jump into this one

and how we're gonna be doing this.

So there are two articles I'm referencing,

both are from psych central.com.

Now as always, I'm going to link to these articles

in the description of this episode,

so don't worry about that.

But I'm going to be referencing both of them

and I highly recommend that you check them out.

The first is titled Six Ways to Overcome Social Anxiety and then the second is sort of a deep dive

into deep breathing and how that helps us in situations when we are feeling anxious.

So I've pulled out three different tips, three things that you can do today, the next time you feel that anxiety coming on in a social situation when you are out and you are with a bunch of friends and there's a bunch of new people or it's a big group or whatever your trigger is the next time you feel it you can try some of these tips and they should help so I'm super excited for that now the first one the first big thing you should try to do when trying to manage your social anxiety is to practice deep breathing now we've talked on this show about the power of breath and how even just getting more oxygen into your system can help calm you down.

Deep breathing can be helpful for pretty much everything in your life, right?

So whether it's stress or anxiety or just needing to relax and

get ready for bed, like there's so many things that taking deep breaths can help us through even so much as productivity and being able to

focus more but when it comes to social anxiety it's especially valuable and I

want to read for you there's two pieces to this.

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