The Calm Living Blueprint: Social Anxiety | Anxiety | Stress | Mindfulness | Inner Peace

Connect with Candice → ⁠ https://candiceesposito.com/⁠ In this episode you’re going to discover a technique, that when used optimally, can actually help you create your own reality. Everyone who has achieved great success in life has used this power consciously or unconsciously. What is this simple technique? Have a listen to the episode to find out… Key Points Our mind brings up stories all the t...

Connect with Candice → ⁠ https://candiceesposito.com/⁠ In this episode you’re going to discover why self-esteem is overrated. Yes, I said OVER-rated. I know a lot of self-help books and programs out there are all about boosting your self-esteem. Well, I’m going to tell why those don’t work and why you don’t need to waste your money on them. Key Points Most people can relate to the core belief of “...

Connect with Candice → ⁠https://candiceesposito.com/⁠ In this podcast episode I answer a question that I get a lot from fellow podcast listeners and my Calm Living clients … Should I take anxiety medication? Key Points Re: Anxiety Medication Each individual’s situation is different Re-frame the question from “Should I take anxiety medication?” to “What do I want to get from taking medication?” “Wh...

Connect with Candice → ⁠ https://candiceesposito.com/⁠ In my opinion this is the most important step of the Calm Living Blueprint, of setting yourself free from fear, free from your struggles with anxiety. Values alone aren’t enough. Our journey begins only when we start taking action. When we move forward guided by our values, we feel a sense of meaning and purpose, even in the face of major chal...

Connect with Candice → ⁠https://candiceesposito.com/⁠ So up to this point we’ve been placing a lot of our focus on the painful feelings you struggle with and the painful thoughts you get entangled by … basically, all the things that you don’t want. But we haven’t yet focused on what you do want – what sort of person you want to be, what sort of relationships you want to build, what you want to do...

Connect with Candice → ⁠https://candiceesposito.com/⁠ In this episode we are going to swerve back to discussing one of the steps of the Calm Living Blueprint, the blueprint to overcoming social anxiety. Pure awareness. A powerful aspect of the mind that has largely been ignored by western psychology. And as you get to know this part of yourself you will further transform your relationship with dif...

Connect with Candice → ⁠https://candiceesposito.com/⁠ Is inflammation causing your anxiety and depression? Inflammation is our body’s basic reaction to protecting itself to whatever it perceives to be harmful – toxins, irritants, infection, stress, and as we’ll talk about later, even thoughts or emotions. Essentially inflammation is the body’s attempt to heal itself. So a certain amount of inflamm...

Connect with Candice → ⁠https://candiceesposito.com/⁠ Your mind is like a time machine. Yup, a time machine. It’s lucky for us that our mind can conceptualize the past and the future. It’s a hugely useful ability. It allows us to reflect on and learn from the past and to predict and plan for the future. As we grow older, our mind gets better and better at doing tricks like conjuring up the past an...

Connect with Candice → ⁠https://candiceesposito.com/⁠  In this episode we’re going to learn how to handle painful feelings – feelings of anxiety and fear and depression. How to open up and make room for them, how to drop the struggle with them. Opening up to them and making room for them sounds a bit counter-intuitive doesn’t it? The opposite of what you probably want to do. “Why would I want to d...

Connect with Candice → ⁠https://candiceesposito.com/⁠ In this episode we’re going to take a bit of a break from mindfulness practice to focus on nutrition, in particular how to calm anxiety with food. More and more research indicates that diet affects mental health. Now, the research examining diet has focused more so on generalized anxiety and depression than social anxiety specifically, but I th...

Connect with Candice → ⁠https://candiceesposito.com/⁠ What do we do when those negative thoughts impact our behaviour or hold us back from doing the things we want to do? For example, having the thought, “I have nothing to say” may lead to avoiding social situations or trying to get out of a social situation. Having the thought, “I blush too much” may lead to trying to hide your face. So how do we...

Connect with Candice → ⁠https://candiceesposito.com/⁠  If you recall from episode 2, one of the myths surrounding social anxiety (or any fear or anxiety for that matter) is that you should be able to control what you think and feel. It’d be nice if life were that simple, but that’s actually a complete fallacy. This myth, this illusion of control is so prevalent in our society (it’s even touted by...

Connect with Candice → ⁠https://candiceesposito.com/⁠ In this episode we are going to shatter some common, widely held myths surrounding anxiety, fear and confidence that may be stopping you from living the life you want to live. These myths are like rules for the game of life, but they are the wrong rules! You can never win if you are playing by the wrong rules. So let’s find out what those myths...

Connect with Candice → https://candiceesposito.com/ “Life is a daring adventure, or nothing.” - Helen Keller Welcome to the first episode of the Calm Living Blueprint podcast. Thank you for joining me and taking the time to listen. My name is Candice Esposito and I will be your humble host the Calm Living podcast series. The format of this first episode is going to be a bit different than future e...