Thanks for the article!

I have a fair bit of social anxiety. When I am talking to almost anyone, I tend to look away. When others are talking, I can make eye contact while listening.

T is not much different. I tend to talk to my journal, my lap, T's bookcase, T's window. When she's talking in general, I can look at her. When she's saying something complementary or encouraging me, I tend to look at...yep...my journal, my lap, etc.

She keeps telling me I have a great deal of shame and she wants to "get that shame out of me and gone". She picked up on the shame quickly and had me read a book by a regional author called "Free Yourself, Be Yourself." This was a title change which my T hated. In its first publishing, it was called, "Shame Off You" which she (and I) think is a more clever and descriptive title.