As one who has gone from painfully shy to nearly free from shyness, I hope that my participation here will inspire and illuminate the path…and help me to become even more free as well. I was once extremely, painfully shy, and now almost nobody who knows me know believes it–but still I have painfully shy moments, even some recent albeit very rare moments of near catatonia.

But the good news is that in my experience, it can become easier and easier to snap back from these experiences and return more free and peaceful than before.