The new social anxiety forum is up and running.   Everyone is welcome to read and participate. 
Our goal is to stay proactive and help each other overcome social anxiety.
 Go to:

http://forum.socialanxietyinstitute.org

We have several dozen practical cognitive strategies, that when acted upon, help people overcome social anxiety. As you make progress, less anxiety in one area means less anxiety in other areas, too.

https://socialanxietyinstitute.org/control-life-cognitive-therapy-social-anxiety-disorder

Too much thinking (overthinking) and too much trying to figure out why we are "this way" (overanalyzing) keeps us stuck in the vicious circle of social anxiety. Stop all the attention you're paying to your thoughts and get your thoughts focused on something else. Be proactive!

https://www.socialanxietyinstitute.org/focus-externally

We can relax and calm ourselves down anytime. It's hard to do at first, but as you keep focusing on calm, peaceful things, it becomes easier.
Calmness is the opposite of anxiety. 

https://www.socialanxietyinstitute.org/importance-calmness-when-doing-therapy

"Overcoming Social Anxiety" means learning to face situations that cause great amounts of fear and anxiety -- without having anxiety about them any more. Thousands of people live life now free of the bonds of social anxiety
https://socialanxietyinstitute.org/jim

Each one of us is valuable and deserves respect from ourselves and others. Open your brain up to rational thinking if you have a hard time accepting this. Only by keeping an open mind can you find out what is really true and really accurate.

https://socialanxietyinstitute.org/acting-assertively

Join in, put yourself out there, step by step; other people are not as rejecting as you think. In therapy, we prove this out to ourselves.
https://www.socialanxietyinstitute.org/Using%20Behavioral%20Techniques%20to%20Find%20the%20Truth