100 Ways to Overcome Shyness

100 Ways to Overcome Shyness is a powerful collection of useful information, case studies, and exercises on how to manage your shyness so you can communicate with people you don’t know very well (or at all) in a wide range of personal and professional settings and circumstances.

Easy-to-use conversation starters are interspersed with lists and exercises throughout the book. There are also chapters on getting out of awkward conversations graciously, plus valuable tips and insights for those with social anxiety or on the Autism spectrum on how to deal with their particular type of shyness. Each chapter also contains talking points to give you springboards for discussion.

100 Ways to Overcome Shyness will show you how to:
• Feel more comfortable at parties, meetings, and group gatherings
• Navigate your way through awkward situations
• Deal positively with the fear of rejection
• Communicate more effectively at work and in your daily life
• Handle arguments and other emotional situations
• Deal effectively with difficult people

If you feel your shyness has held you back and prevented you from living a full life, 100 Ways to Overcome Shyness will give you the tools you need to change your life, once and for all.

“Shyness can be difficult and painful. Please read this book for comfort and guidance!”
—Peggy DuBois, PsyD, psychoanalyst, senior and supervising analyst, Institute For Contemporary Psychoanalysis, contributor to The International Federal For Psychoanalytic Education

“The reassuring writing style of Dr. Goldsmith makes you, the reader, feel like he knows your challenges around shyness and is talking directly to you—as if he is your inspirational life coach. This book provides the answers to your unasked questions about your shyness and with eloquent simplicity both answers them and gives you solutions.”
—Brian Satt, PhD, psychologist and founder of WombSongs.com and AdvancingAwareness.com

“100 Ways to Overcome Shyness is a must-read for shy individuals who desire to change their thinking and change their behavior to achieve a fuller, richer life.”
—Martha B. Koo, MD, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst

Honored by several professional associations, Dr. Barton Goldsmith is a multi-award-winning psychotherapist, syndicated columnist, author, and former NPR radio host, a keynote speaker and a top blogger for Psychology Today. He was named by Cosmopolitan as one of America’s top therapists.

Marlena Hunter, MA, is a University of California graduate with a degree in psychology and several years of experience in clinical settings as a marriage and family therapist. She studied psychoanalysis at Sigmund Freud University in Vienna and received European credits. She has also written for psychologytoday.com.