Authenticity vs. Approval
Shrink For The Shy Guy
Dr. Aziz: Social Anxiety And Confidence Expert, Author and Coach
4.8 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Are you a control freak? You might be surprised to find that social anxiety often comes with an obsessive need for control. In this episode, Dr. Aziz dives deep into how social anxiety is tied to a constant effort to control how others perceive you. This control can be exhausting and counterproductive, but understanding it is the first step towards liberation.
Join Dr. Aziz as he explores the roots of this behavior and provides practical steps to help you let go of the obsessive control, allowing you to feel more relaxed and confident in social situations. By the end of this episode, you'll gain new insights and tools to start living more freely and authentically.
Ready to transform your social anxiety? Tune in now!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the show for you if you are sick and tired of being held back by fear, self-doubt, |
| 0:10.0 | social anxiety, shyness, anything that's stopping you from you being you. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm going to share the most powerful tools and resources that I've been discovering over the last 15 years on my |
| 0:21.9 | journey to eradicate social anxiety and instill confidence, first in myself and then in every |
| 0:28.5 | single person that I meet on my journey. You're going to learn these tools and how to apply them |
| 0:33.1 | in your life now so that you can become the most free, powerful, bold, authentic version of you. |
| 0:43.6 | Hey, welcome today's episode of the show. Today we're talking about authenticity versus |
| 0:49.8 | approval. Oh no. Are they against each other? Can you not have both? What do I do? Well, in today's |
| 0:57.9 | episode, you're going to learn where you can have both and where you can't and how you go about |
| 1:05.0 | getting both, experiencing both. I don't know if you get authenticity, but you get to be authentic. |
| 1:12.5 | And maybe why you'd want that, because you might say, I don't know if you get authenticity, but you get to be authentic. And maybe why you'd want that, because you might say, I don't want to be authentic if it means I lose all my |
| 1:17.9 | connections and have to be isolated in the forest. Well, actually, you don't. There's good news here |
| 1:23.4 | that you can actually have it all. You can be authentic and you can have love and connection and approval of others. |
| 1:29.1 | In fact, maybe even more approval from others, but not if you go about it seeking the |
| 1:35.3 | approval instead of being your authentic self. |
| 1:38.6 | So we're going to uncover more of that. |
| 1:39.9 | And you're going to leave this episode with a renewed enthusiasm for being yourself, |
| 1:46.7 | which again, being yourself is one of those things that kind of makes me roll my eyes. |
| 1:50.8 | It's like an internet meme at this point. |
| 1:53.5 | But it goes way beyond like a bumper sticker, a motivational poster. |
| 1:59.6 | It is perhaps one of the most important things that you |
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