Tools to Help Build Your Confidence
Tools to Help Build Your Confidence
- Write a list of your positive qualities and things you like about yourself.
- Practise calm breathing and try exercise or Progressive Muscle Relaxation to manage your anxiety.
- Make a plan to stop avoiding things and start with small goals. Try out new things or restart old hobbies.
- Talk back to your inner critic. Challenge the way you speak to yourself by asking “what makes me think my thoughts are correct?”
- Focus on what’s around you, rather than on what’s going on in your body.
- Use your senses to stay in the present moment.
- Get help from others by asking the people you trust to tell you what they like about you and what you’re good at. You might be surprised at what they say!
Apps
Websites
Self-help guides
Download a Social Anxiety SelfHelp Guide (PDF) from NHS inform at the bottom of this page.
Worksheets
Social Anxiety Worksheet 12 – Situational Exposure Building Steps
Social Anxiety Worksheet 13 – Situational Exposure Diary
Books
Overcoming social anxiety and shyness: a self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques by Gillian Butler
We’re all mad here: the no-nonsense guide to living with social anxiety by Claire Eastham
Related Resources
Increase Your Positive ActivitiesAn exercise in helping you find a balance in life and actively putting those positive activities back into your life.- Tips on Managing Change in Our LivesWe all have to cope and manage with change in our lives for lots of reasons. Here are some tips and thoughts on navigating through a period of change.
- Computerised Cognitive Behavioural TherapyCognitive Behavioural Therapy - CBT - is a psychological therapy based on the relationships between what we think, what we do and how we feel. CBT teaches you how to recognise and tackle problems in the here and now, rather than in the past.
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