Social Anxiety Ruined My Life

Breaking Free from the Grip of Social Anxiety: A Journey to Unleash Your True Potential

For years, I had social anxiety, I would do whatever I could to avoid going to places I didn’t know and talking to people I didn’t know. My life was going boringly well until my boss told me: “You need to talk more in meetings, I have the solution. Next meeting, I’m going to sit next to you, I’m going to give you a subtle little nudge, which means you need to talk. Easy right?’’

No!

What does she think? That she just found the antidote for social anxiety, a little nudge, and that’s it? No, it doesn’t work like that.

I was always afraid of looking stupid, afraid of people judging me.

Fear was part of my life every day, apprehension, anguish, apathy. Anxiety about what I said. Afraid of saying something wrong. Fear of rejection.

For years, I let fear destroy my dreams and kill my ambitions.

I thought that I could never become a leader and communicator, that it was too difficult that it was better to give up before I started. I was right, in part. It was hard, it was the hardest thing I had to do in my life. I’ve wanted to give up time and time again, luckily I’m too proud to give up. But it was all…