So you're at an event and you're just about to talk to somebody and then out of nowhere, your whole body freezes.

You've completely lost what you're about to say.

And your whole body feels like it's completely shut down.

You cannot bring yourself to make the next step.

What do you do?

Now, by the end of this episode,

you are going to know exactly what to say when your brain freezes and I'm going to help

you understand why it's happening and I'll give you social anxiety scripts to help you in any

circumstance when you have felt like you've completely gone into fruze mode and

you want to resume back into that conversation.

Hello, my name is Kimberly Quillen.

I am an anxiety specialist and I am on a mission here at your anxiety toolkit to help 10 million

people manage their anxiety with evidence-based skills.

It is terrifying out there on the internet to see some of the strategies I am seeing people give

advice on. And so this is what I do for a living. It's my biggest mission to as many people as I can suffer less from anxiety.

So many people are suffering from anxiety and I'm here to hopefully help you along the way as well.

Now first we have to understand something really important.

When you freeze, it doesn't mean anything's wrong with you.

It is a normal human response to anxiety. We go into

something called the fight, flight and freeze response. And the freeze response is exactly

that freeze moment you have when you're in social settings. Now what we want to do here is your

job is to immediately normalize this response.

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