2018-10-02
1 小时 9 分钟So why would somebody heading to college with the intention of becoming an architect end up becoming a clinical psychologist specializing in anxiety, more specifically, social anxiety?
This is the kind of fascinating, fun romp of a story that we dive into with today's guest, Ellen Hendrickson.
She is a clinical psychologist who is also the host and producer of the Savvy Psychologist podcast.
She has been featured in New York magazine, Psychology Today, Scientific American, all sorts of other super cool places.
She earned her PhD at UCLA, completed her training at Harvard Medical School, and is the author of a fantastic new book called how to be yourself, quiet your inner critic, and rise above social anxiety.
I have to confess, this was as much fun for me on a personal level as it was professional because I have been somebody who has been on the quieter side and also experience my fair share of social anxiety in many different scenarios and settings and still to this day, experience it here and there.
So we dive into her own personal journey and also really a lot of the fundamental concepts and misconceptions around social anxiety and some great sort of insight on how to move through this kind of a, sometimes limiting part of our human experience.
Really excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
So as a kid, what are you into?
I was a quiet kid.
I was an early reader.
I read when I was three.
I distinctly remember my first grade teacher having to go to other classrooms to, like, second and third grade classrooms to go get books for me and to.
So you were just, like, tearing through whatever.
I was just ripping through books.
And so, yeah, I was a voracious reader.
And I think that actually informed my later transition to writing and actually backing up.
I think it actually informed my interest in clinical psychology because it's a story, because you get to sit down with somebody and say, what happened to you?
What's your story?