How To Change Your Story
Authentic Confidence with Dr. Aziz
Dr. Aziz Gazipura, Psychologist and Author
4.8 • 666 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2014
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
What stories do you have about yourself? Do you perceive yourself as attractive, capable, and effective in the world? Do you believe you deserve to be loved for who you are? Or do you see yourself as defective, awkward, and unlovable?
Whatever you believe about yourself tends to create your reality. If you think no one can like or love you, then that is what you will discover.
Join Dr. Aziz to uncover what your current stories are, and how to transform them into ones that inspire and empower you.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming to you from the Center for Social Confidence in Portland, Oregon. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy, helping men everywhere go from social anxiety to social domination. |
| 0:13.5 | With your host, Dr. Aziz. |
| 0:17.8 | Hey, welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy. |
| 0:20.5 | I'm your host, Dr. Aziz, coming to you from the Center for Social |
| 0:23.3 | Confidence here in Portland, Oregon. And I'm particularly excited about today's show because I get to share |
| 0:28.9 | with you the idea of your story. And if you haven't heard this before, this is something that |
| 0:34.6 | totally changed my life, not to be dramatic, but literally changed my life when I was 19 years old, 20 years old, when I discovered it, somewhere in that age range. |
| 0:44.2 | And it really started to shift things for me. |
| 0:46.3 | It was a number of years before I really started to break free from shyness because I still had a lot of work to do. |
| 0:51.9 | But you can say that was the starting point. |
| 0:53.7 | That was the turning point for me. |
| 0:55.6 | And so I'm hoping that by sharing this with you today, it can be your turning point. |
| 0:59.7 | It can start to shift things for you. |
| 1:01.5 | So let me describe what I mean by the idea of your story. |
| 1:05.9 | And this idea is so powerful that it is an integral part of a number of the therapies that have |
| 1:12.9 | been shown to be effective for shyness, including cognitive behavioral therapy and narrative therapy |
| 1:18.0 | and a variety of others. And what I mean by story is, if you remember back to the last episode, |
| 1:24.4 | we talked about what the source of shyness is, what the cause of social |
| 1:28.6 | anxiety is, and that it is the belief that there is something wrong with you and that therefore |
| 1:34.1 | people aren't going to like you, they're going to reject you, and you're not worthy of love, |
| 1:38.4 | acceptance, belonging, approval for the person that you are. So what happens is we have a story. |
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