The Secret Reasons You Resist Being Social
Shrink For The Shy Guy
Dr. Aziz: Social Anxiety And Confidence Expert, Author and Coach
4.8 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Do you resist being social? Before that meeting, gathering, or even a visit with a friend, do you feel dread and a desire to not go? If so, you're doomed for life. No! Actually this is extremely common and there's nothing wrong with you. Join Dr. Aziz in this insightful episode to discover the hidden sources of this resistance and how to connect and have fun in all social experiences.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the show for you if you are sick and tired of being held back by fear, self-doubt, |
| 0:10.0 | social anxiety, shyness, anything that's stopping you from you being you. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm going to share the most powerful tools and resources that I've been discovering over the last 15 years on my |
| 0:21.9 | journey to eradicate social anxiety and instill confidence, first in myself and then in every |
| 0:28.5 | single person that I meet on my journey. You're going to learn these tools and how to apply them |
| 0:33.1 | in your life now so that you can become the most free, powerful, bold, authentic version of you. |
| 0:46.0 | Hey, welcome today's episode of the show. Today we're going to be talking about a subtle or not |
| 0:52.4 | so subtle resistance that you feel to socializing. And this might be |
| 0:57.6 | in one area or a lot of areas. And it's something I've heard from clients often where there's |
| 1:04.0 | maybe a phase where you just try to avoid a lot of socializing. You resist it really heavily. |
| 1:10.0 | You're avoidant of it. Usually that's when someone's in a high lot of socializing. You resist it really heavily. You're avoidant of it. |
| 1:11.2 | Usually that's when someone's in a high level of social anxiety. They tend to just minimize or |
| 1:17.5 | avoid. They don't really go on that many dates or they don't go talk in groups. So they avoid |
| 1:21.9 | those things. And so what often happens is they start to work with clients and they break out of |
| 1:26.5 | that pattern and they start to go practice more |
| 1:28.8 | and they do develop a newfound sense of confidence |
| 1:31.5 | or ability to connect with others. |
| 1:33.7 | But then they find that they still resist being social. |
| 1:37.5 | They still resist connecting with others. |
| 1:39.8 | And then they're like, what's going on here? |
| 1:41.3 | Like why don't should I like this more |
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