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Good friendships and relationships can be one of life's most fulfilling experiences. However, the quality of your external relationships is largely reflection of the quality of your relationship with yourself. The social anxiety therapy that we've performed so far should provide an excellent foundation for improving your internal communication. If you think that putting your relationship with yourself first sounds selfish, keep in mind that you will actually be more able to give to others more when you first resolve your own emotional issues and are less consumed by your own anxieties. So it's really not selfish at all -- the first step in improving the world around you is improving yourself. Your efforts to improve your inner relations will radiate out to external relationships. And once you've established a healthy relationship with yourself, you're in the best position establish healthy, non-needy, relationships with others.

As a final step in attaining social confidence, please REPEAT THE PHRASES WITH FULL EMOTION AND KNOWING THAT THEY ARE TRUE FOR YOU NOW.

  • I am now OK with myself and this makes me a comfortable person to be with.
  • Because I have learned to handle anxiety, I am able to focus attention on others rather than myself.
  • I know that not everyone will like the person who I am, and that is okay.
  • If someone doesn't like me or is not comfortable with me, that is their problem.
  • I can only be the person who I love, and let others love me if they choose.
  • I do not try to make my social interactions perfect. I do not try to be perfect.
  • I appreciate my humanness. I enjoy imperfection.
  • Anyone who disapproves of or judges me is not important to me.
  • I have can go through fear of judgment and rejection, because I'm ok with myself.
  • I am willing to feel nervousness, rejection, and embarrassment. It's nothing.
  • I take the risk of rejection that getting to know others requires.
  • I take emotional risks in order to find the relationships I desire.

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