How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety

Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Prologue
Part 1: I Thought It Was Just Me! Introducing Social Anxiety
	1. The Root of It All: How Social Anxiety Takes Hold
	2. Social Anxiety Is Like an Apple Tree (or, Why Social Anxiety Has Stuck Around for Millennia)
	3. Your Brain on Social Anxiety
Part 2: Looking Inside Your Head
	4. How Our Inner Critic Undermines Us
	5. Think Different: Replace
	6. Think Different: Embrace
Part 3: Heading Out into the World
	7. Get Started and Your Confidence Will Catch Up
	8. No False Fronts in This Town: Play a Role to Build Your True Self
	9. Mountains to Molehills: It Gets Easier Every Time
	10. Putting It All Together: Your Challenge List
Part 4: Busting the Myths of Social Anxiety
	11. How (and Why) to Turn Your Attention Inside Out
	12. Seeing Is Believing: How You Feel Isn’t How You Look
	13. “I Have to Sound Smart/Funny/Interesting”: How Perfectionism Holds Us Back
	14. Why You Don’t Have a Social Skills Problem (You Heard That Right)
	15. The Myth of Hope in a Bottle
Part 5: All You Have to Be Is Kind
	16. The Building Blocks of Beautiful Friendships (They’re Not What You Think)
Epilogue
Notes
	Notes: Prologue
	Notes 3
	Notes 8
	Notes 9
	Notes 10
	Notes 12
	Notes 13
	Notes 14
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
References
About the Author
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