Normally I try to keep a fine line drawn between the social skills advice and the dating advice. I think there’s far too many dating advice websites out there with (mostly) nonsense information and that’s not my kind of thing – it’s als...
I’ve been running shyness training for several years now and at one point the people I was working with wanted to start a bingo pool for the things we’d hear more often and “I have no social life” was at the top of the list. It’s ...
One of the things I’ve been seeing pop up more and more is people explaining their social problems and situations and asking “Do I have social anxiety?” or “Am I shy?”. There are quizzes and tests designed to see just how shy you ...
As the regular readers among you will know – I play close attention to the questions we get asked here on Over Shyness. And one which has been cropping up from time to time is the idea of using hypnosis for social anxiety for shyness. Having someone put ...
I’ve been coaching people through their shyness online for a couple of years now. Regular readers will know I run a couple of shyness based websites now and learned to overcome my own shyness through the internet. So the idea of shyness forums with peopl...
Chances are that either you suffer from shyness yourself or you know someone who does and you’re trying to help them. In either case it’s pretty likely that you (or they) believe they have extreme shyness or that nobody else goes through what they ...
Now I want to make something abundantly clear. When I start talking about how to deal with loneliness I’m not talking about how to distract yourself by watching TV or how to not feel bad about it. If you don’t like that you feel lonely this is good...
Sometimes, even when you think you can hide your shyness away, your body can betray you by blushing. Turning your face into a shining red beacon of shyness so how do you stop blushing? Well the shy among us will know how easy it can be to find yourself blushin...
There’s an old song which I like pointing out to people. It’s called Ask – The Smiths (I’ve included the lyrics and the video below) but it raises an important question. Can shyness be nice? Can shyness be a positive trait? Now I go thr...
Ah the awkward silence – the death of any social situation. Once a conversation reaches that point any other topics can feel a little strained and difficult but sometimes it just seems hard to avoid getting there. Well there’s a knack to avoiding a...
My name is Chris and I'm the main writer for Over shyness.
I know from first hand experience what kind of a difference shyness can make to your life. I put together over shyness when I had a hard time learning how to overcome shyness myself and saw how much bad advice there is out there.
We have updated advice on how to overcome shyness and it's all based on the psychology and first hand experience of shyness.