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    Overcoming Social Anxiety: How a Once Shy Girl Overcame Social Anxiety through Self Love and Natural Social Skills
    Overcoming Social Anxiety: How a Once Shy Girl Overcame Social Anxiety through Self Love and Natural Social Skills
    Overcoming Social Anxiety: How a Once Shy Girl Overcame Social Anxiety through Self Love and Natural Social Skills
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    Overcoming Social Anxiety: How a Once Shy Girl Overcame Social Anxiety through Self Love and Natural Social Skills

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    Are you a shy person? I was once myself, and I want to share what I have learned from my own life.

    • Quality is more important than quantity when selecting friends.
    • Social skills are as simple as smiling and saying hi to people.
    • Discernment is key to picking the right people to build you up, not tear you down. Some people have poor intentions.
    • Standing up for yourself is the single most important thing you can do.
    • Talking to people or standing up for yourself is akin to the feeling of jumping out of an airplane...scary but exhilarating and worth it!
    • Cherish old and true friends.
    • Try activities you actually love. You will meet so many people!
    • Passion overrides shyness. Find what you love and you will forget to be shy!
    • Embrace your introversion; there are a lot of advantages to being an introvert. But don’t let shyness confine you.
    • Learn to be comfortable on your own. Then you have the confidence to attract other people.
    • Don’t judge people by their outward appearance. Get to know them first.
    • Work on finding your true values. Experimentation to find them out is OK. Then stick to those values.
    • Always, always, always be yourself or your friendships will fall apart.
    • Mental illness and bad experiences can set your progress back but you will bounce back.
    • And more!

    HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on unique topics by everyday experts.

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    PublisherHowExpert
    Release dateMar 24, 2019
    ISBN9780988522831
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      Overcoming Social Anxiety

      How a Once Shy Girl Overcame Social Anxiety through Self Love and Natural Social Skills

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      Table of Contents

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      Chapter 1: The Shy Baby Hiding behind Mom’s Leg

      Shy Baby

      Shyness is Hereditary

      It All Starts with Family

      Chapter 2: Starting School

      Grade School

      The Pool

      Homesteading

      "Hey, I Like Your Earrings"

      Chapter 3: Being a Semi-Shy Teen

      The Karate Kid

      Bad Jokes

      Writing

      My First Job

      Chapter 4: Becoming Outgoing in College

      Too Young for School

      This Party is Off the Hook

      Guys In College

      Chapter 5: Navigating Young Adulthood

      The Elevator

      Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

      Nailing Adulting

      The Smile Experiment

      Sky Diving to Confront My Fears

      The Language Barrier

      Chapter 7: Not the Shy Girl Anymore

      How Overcoming Shyness Helps You

      Don’t Lose Sight of Old Friends

      Quality over Quantity

      My Very Besties

      About the Expert

      Recommended Resources

      Chapter 1: The Shy Baby Hiding behind Mom’s Leg

      Shy Baby

      All right, I’m going to start this book with a pretty egotistical statement: I was one cute kid. Well, I was! Just look at me:

      I was a little towheaded girl with a deep love of Lion King and Elmo. My favorite toy was a Sesame Street bus, which I would rush around the house while narrating little stories in my head about what happened to all the Muppets inside. There was a whole galaxy of personality inside of me. Yet whenever I saw a stranger besides my mom, I would freeze up and hide my face behind her leg, unable to express who I really was. I remember being tiny and feeling this way and wondering why I couldn’t easily talk to the big adults around me.

      This whole shyness thing did not ease up as I got older, either. It only got worse. By the age of five, Mom would yell at me because I would hide behind her hip still when people talked to me. People are going to start thinking there’s something wrong with you! she yelled.

      Then I was plunged into kindergarten. A Christian academy, with green plaid jumpers and white tights for the uniform. I think we even had to wear ties. As my permed teacher with the mesmerizingly long red acrylic nails wrote huge letters across the blackboard, I remember trading looks with other little girls and giggling, for which we would all get in trouble.

      Was I really that shy? I don’t know, honestly. I do know I made friends with all the girls in my class. I do know that we got in trouble a lot for giggling all through the lessons. And I do remember having a crush on a little boy named Taylor, and whenever I sat next to Taylor, he would say, Ew! and scoot away from me. He didn’t want my little girl cooties. Understandable.

      At the end of the year, we moved from Rochester, Minnesota, to Chester, Iowa. And I went to the local school, Lime Springs Elementary. First grade didn’t seem too traumatic, either. I seemed to have a lot of friends in a relatively short amount of time and no enemies or bullies, at first anyway. My crush even liked me back I think because he loved to pick on me. I just don’t remember issues with shyness.

      The shyness only seemed to arise in third grade, when the same girls I had been friends with

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