Matthew AI argues that shyness stems from unmet childhood needs. By becoming your own cheerleader and offering yourself the warmth you once craved, you stop feeling alone in social situations and can express yourself despite anxiety.
One of the most beautiful things you can ever do that can take away your own shyness, your social anxiety, or not even take them away, just make you realize that you can still go and express yourself in spite of them, is when you recognize what that child needed, you can actually give it to yourself today. You can give yourself the very warmth and love and encouragement and the teammate, the dance partner that you're craving on the outside. Because you can actually be that friend to yourself in any room. And when you do that, you'll realize that you never went to any party alone. You never went to any event alone. You were always taking this incredible ally, this incredible teammate and cheerleader. And that is you.
