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How to Be Yourself
Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety
BY Ellen Hendriksen
Read by Ellen Hendriksen

Macmillan Audio
03/13/2018/ ISBN 9781427294142
Nonfiction / Self-Help / Audiobook – Unabridged

Reviewed by  Brenda Weeaks

 

“Social anxiety is the self-consciousness on steroids. First there is a sense of being consciousness, of sticking out a like a sore thumb. There follows an urge to hide, to conceal, sometimes by staying away altogether, sometimes by showing up but remaining silent or staring intently at the floor.”    - Ellen Hendriksen PH.D., How to Be Yourself

“Social anxiety is the self-consciousness on steroids. First there is a sense of being consciousness, of sticking out a like a sore thumb. There follows an urge to hide, to conceal, sometimes by staying away altogether, sometimes by showing up but remaining silent or staring intently at the floor.” - Ellen Hendriksen PH.D., How to Be Yourself

With this audiobook, the author “promises to shine a bright light of your brain, keep what’s working, discard what’s not, and load you up with tools to nudge you in the direction you want to go.” Her goal is to help you overcome anxiety, or as she puts it retrain yourself and let the true you shine. The author does this in an intelligent, empathetic manner. She gives sound advice and personal examples such as what it was like to walking through a store and putting a large amount of water, bananas, etc into her car and how fear and her mind worked while she was doing it. She also includes tips to help you along. I found it so much more revealing than other personal improvement books, maybe because the author once suffered anxiety herself. Ms Hendriksen’s teachings are sound. Her confident, reassuring, and sometimes humorous narration is a true indication the author has found her true self, and we can too.



Reviewed 2018
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