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 today's episode of the show. I'm excited to be with you today because we're

going to be talking about something that I think is very important, which is your confidence in your body, your body image, how you think that you look

and how you feel about the way that you look. And this is a huge confidence problem for most people.

Most of us have learned from a very young age that the way that we look

is unacceptable in some form or another. And usually that doesn't kick in when we're little kids.

Little kids usually aren't aware of it. And as we get older, become more inundated in the culture

and start to see if we fit in, usually around middle school,

that's when people will start to get a pretty clear idea of, I look good or I don't,

which is very closely linked, if not equivalent to I am worthy or I'm not.

I'm popular or I'm a loser.

I'm lovable or I'm unlovable. I'm worthy of dating or I'm not. I'm popular or I'm a loser. I'm lovable or I'm unlovable.

I'm worthy of dating or I'm not worthy of dating.

I belong and need friends or I don't deserve that.

It's all wrapped up in a lot of ways in our body image.

And of course that continues, you know, bombarded with messages all day, every day. So we got the overt, you know,

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