Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy.

This is the show for you if you are sick and tired of being held back by fear, self-doubt,

social anxiety, shyness, anything that's stopping you from you being you.

I'm going to share the most powerful tools and resources that I've been discovering over the last 15 years on my

journey to eradicate social anxiety and instill confidence, first in myself and then in every

single person that I meet on my journey. You're going to learn these tools and how to apply them

in your life now so that you can become the most free, powerful, bold, authentic version of you.

Hey, welcome to today's episode of the show.

Today we're going to be talking about everyone's favorite topic.

Shame.

Hooray. It's actually a really important topic to talk about, though, because it profoundly affects us in our lives in so many

ways that we might not even be conscious of and really guides our behavior, the actions we take

or don't take, how we feel, and it also can manifest

as strong kind of like shame storms or what I would call the shame pit. And as I describe it,

you'll know what I'm talking about if you don't already. I'm sure you've taken some trips down

into the shame pit, I know I have, and it can be really debilitating,

really painful. And here's the thing about shame in the shame pit is once you go in there and

feel so awful, you kind of don't want to go back. But the problem is we have so many pathways

down to the shame pit that we end up going back a lot or just trying to totally restrict our lives

so we don't have any risk or any setback or any discomfort and then we end up going down to the shame pit anyway or just living a really restricted life.

So let's change all that. Yeah? Sound good. You ready? You excited? You excited to

talk about shame? Okay, well, let's get excited. Once you shake your body out. I know. Maybe you're

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