Episode 44: Embodying Ease with Social Anxiety
Fact: one summer I watched every episode of Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman ever filmed, 149 in total.
Mid-season Dr. Quinn learned her mother was sick, and fled her wild frontier life in Colorado Springs to return to her home in Boston high society.
Upon her departure, her (highly culturally appropriating) wild west love interest, Byron Sully, feared she would be snatched up by a slick, single Boston sophisticate.
So he took the long journey from west to east wearing his signature fringe jacket and suede leather chaps, stepped off the train, walked up to their townhouse, and rang the bell.
The Quinn family was having dinner at the time in full petticoat regalia.
In walks Sully, reeking of sweat from his journey, intensified by the suede chaps I'm sure.
Yikes.
It was incredibly awkward.
For everyone involved.
But what's interesting is this: it wasn't Sully's presence that made things awkward.
It was the way Sully didn't fit into the society made it awkward.
This is good news for us socially anxious humans because guess what? It’s not actually people we’re afraid of.
What are we afraid of? Click here to listen in and find out.
if you have thoughts like:
What will people think of me?
I always say the wrong thing.
I'm 45 years old, why do I still feel 15 when I meet someone new?
I've got good news.
In today's episode, I'm sharing the most powerful tools I know to reclaim what your body was built for: connection, healthy intimacy and pleasure in your interactions and relationships.
You'll hear about:
A mindset shift that will instantly help you relax in whatever situations give you the willies
The wallflower and the dazzler social archetypes, and how to embody your own organic state of balance
What separates the Sparrows from the Swans when it comes to taking up your rightful social space
How to allow more of the beauty inside of you to occupy more space outside of you
It's a grand episode, just in time for the holidays.
Let Heaven & Nature Sing,
Mary
