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Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer podcast.

I'm Shan Vanderleak here with my wonderful friend and co-host Ananga Severe.

We come together weekly from Kent and Lelandaw to share anxiety slayer sessions with you and

answer listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page.

Together we share a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety.

Hello Ananga, hey Shen.

In this week's episode we're talking about how social anxiety can make it very challenging to leave home and meet with friends or attend social events and how you can support yourself or find the right help in feeling more calm and confident socially.

And if you don't know what social anxiety is, it's an intense fear of being judged by others when you're out and about, when you're at work or school, day-to-day activities.

And many of our listeners have reached out to us and said

that they even dread going out with their friends and often cancel because they

get so worked up before having to go out in public. I really feel for everyone who feels that way and I've felt that way before in my life. Not so much with going out with with friends but in other activities for sure.

Yeah me too I can remember these feelings very well. Different concerns feeling

embarrassed and feeling that it will be seen that you will show your anxiety or embarrassment by blushing, sweating or shaking.

I used to do all of those and could trigger it just by thinking about it ahead of time, really difficult,

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