Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Muse, the brain sensing headband that helps you meditate and sleep and meditation studio, the five-star app.

I'm Patricia Carpice.

I'm excited to share something new from Muse, which we first told you about last week.

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and use discount code launch 15 if you want to give it a try. Today's guest is Dr. Ellen Hendrickson.

She's a clinical psychologist whose focus is on helping millions of people

calm their anxiety so they can be more authentic to who they are. She serves on the faculty at Boston

University Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders. And she's the author of the book we

discussed today called How to Be Yourself, Quiet Your Intercritic and Rise Above

Social Anxiety. In this episode, we talk about the fear of being judged or even rejected and how to

manage our somewhat distorted and often annoying thinking. We've heard this before on Untangle.

Your thoughts are not always truth. We can, in fact, change our scripts. Ellen talks about many ways to quiet the inner chatter that take us down this rabbit hole and prevent us from living life to its fullest. She shares how we can actually rewire our brains through our behavior and

how to truly be our best selves. It's not easy, but she has lots of small steps we can take. Now,

here's Ellen. Ellen, it's great to have you with us on Untangle today. Thanks so much for being here fresh back from vacation.

Oh, thank you so much for having me.

Yeah. I love the book, which I told you in advance of this interview. It was so poignant and so

applicable to the times that we're in right now and we have such high rates of anxiety

and social anxiety in particular. But I wanted to really understand what inspired you to focus

on social anxiety in particular and on this very vocal inner critic that lives within all of our brains.

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