Dr. Ellen Hendriksen: ...don't wait for anxiety to go away to live your best life

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4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Do you feel uncomfortable in some social situations? Do you feel self-conscious and insecure and wish you could do something about that? If so, you’ll want to hear what our guest, Dr. Ellen Hendriksen has to say. Ellen is a clinical psychologist who has helped millions of people overcome social anxiety. She’s the author of book, "How To Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety". Her website is https://www.ellenhendriksen.com/about

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black.
0:14.3	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:15.9	Do you feel uncomfortable in some social situations?
0:20.1	Do you feel self-conscious and insecure? Do you wish
0:23.5	you could do something about that? If so, you'll want to hear what our guest, Dr. Ellen Hendrickson,
0:29.0	has to say. Ellen is a clinical psychologist who has devoted her career to helping her clients
0:34.3	overcome social anxiety. And she's the author of the new book, How to Be Yourself,
0:39.4	Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety. Ellen, welcome to the show.
0:44.7	Thank you so much for having me. I'm delighted to be on. Talk to us a little bit about your
0:48.4	background because you have a personal connection to the reason why you wrote this book.
0:52.7	Sure. So there's a saying in academics that
0:55.3	research is me search. And that is because researchers often are, you know, naturally interested in the
1:02.4	things that make them tick. And so I myself have a history of social anxiety. And it's not something
1:08.6	I set out to research. But when I stumbled across it in my studies
1:13.1	and in my training, I recognized myself. And I said, aha, that sounds like something that I know about
1:20.1	as I've figured stuff out myself over, you know, many decades in a PhD in clinical psychology,
1:25.1	but also in helping other people overcome their
1:28.4	social anxiety. It's been just such a privilege and delight to get to work with people
1:33.8	with social anxiety because they are inevitably just kind and lovely people. And I love
1:38.9	helping them discover just that. Well, how do most of us experience social anxiety? What are the things that we feel when
1:47.4	we're experiencing that? So I'm glad you asked that. I think a really good analogy is we've all
1:54.3	experienced some morning when we've woken up and looked in the mirror and realized we have a big
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