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Reduce the fear that makes social situations so difficult. Social anxiety turns ordinary interactions into ordeals. Meeting people, speaking up, being visible—activities others do easily become sources of dread, avoidance, and exhausting performance. Life shrinks to accommodate the fear. Overcoming Social Anxiety provides understanding and strategies for reducing social anxiety's grip. You'll learn why social anxiety develops, how it maintains itself through avoidance, and evidence-based approaches for challenging it. Drawing from cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure methodology, and social anxiety research, the course covers the thought patterns, physical symptoms, and behavioral avoidance that characterize social anxiety—and how to address each. Through our ACT Triangle methodology, you'll practice facing social anxiety during the course. You'll challenge avoidance gradually, build evidence that contradicts anxious predictions, and develop the skills that make social situations manageable rather than terrifying. Because life is too short to spend it hiding.