Every strategy you use to get through a social situation might be the reason your anxiety never goes away.

In this video, I cover:

- What social anxiety safety behaviours actually are (and the subtle ones most people miss)

- Why talking quietly, talking fast, mental rehearsing, and deflecting to others all backfire

- How safety behaviours block your brain from learning the situation is safe

- The three stages where they show up — before, during, and after social events

- What a graduated approach to dropping them actually looks like

I've worked with hundreds of clients on social anxiety over 12 years. I've seen this pattern play out more times than I can count — and the good news is, once you understand the mechanism, the path forward becomes a lot clearer.

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Introduction

1:45 - What safety behaviours are

3:10 - The most common ones (and why they feel like coping)

5:00 - What's happening in your brain

6:20 - How safety behaviours block new learning

7:30 - The three stages: before, during, and after

9:00 - What actually helps

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LINKS:

Social Anxiety Breakthrough: https://www.anxiety-specialists.com/social-anxiety

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