Shy

Author: Sian Prior
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925095258
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
Sian Prior has maintained a career in the public eye, as a broadcaster and performer, for more than twenty years. For far longer than that she has suffered from excruciating shyness. Eventually, after bolting from a party in a state of near-panic, she decides to investigate her condition. What is it - shyness? Where did hers come from? Why does it create such distressing turmoil beneath her assured professional front? As Sian begins to research the science of social anxiety, other factors present themselves as facets of the problem. Family, intimate friendships, self-perception and fear and longing and the consequences of love...While, in counterpoint, there is the security, the sense of belonging, she finds in the life she shares with Tom, her famous partner. Until he tells her he is leaving. Shy: A Memoir - frank, provocative, remarkable in its clarity and beautifully written - is a book about unease: about questioning who you are and evading the answer. It is about grief, and abandonment and loss. It is about how the simple word shy belies the complex reality of what that really means. Sian Prior is a journalist and broadcaster specialising in the arts and popular culture, a media consultant, and a teacher at universities and writers centres. She has a second career as a musician and recording artist. Sian lives in Melbourne. Shy: A Memoir is her first book. Book club notes are available for this title from the Text Publishing website. 'A fascinating meditation on how temperament can shape a person's life.' Books+Publishing 'Charming and beautifully evoked...' Weekend Australian 'Prior captures details with prose equal to a skilled novelist...a deeply satisfying inquiry into the nature of self.' Saturday Paper

Shy

Author: Mary Rodgers
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374709807
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
The memoirs of Mary Rodgers—writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and “a woman who tried everything.” “What am I, bologna?” Mary Rodgers (1931–2014) often said. She was referring to being stuck in the middle of a talent sandwich: the daughter of one composer and the mother of another. And not just any composers. Her father was Richard Rodgers, perhaps the greatest American melodist; her son, Adam Guettel, a worthy successor. What that leaves out is Mary herself, also a composer, whose musical Once Upon a Mattress remains one of the rare revivable Broadway hits written by a woman. Shy is the story of how it all happened: how Mary grew from an angry child, constrained by privilege and a parent’s overwhelming gift, to become not just a theater figure in her own right but also a renowned author of books for young readers (including the classic Freaky Friday) and, in a final grand turn, a doyenne of philanthropy and the chairman of the Juilliard School. But in telling these stories—with copious annotations, contradictions, and interruptions from Jesse Green, the chief theater critic of The New York Times—Shy also tells another, about a woman liberating herself from disapproving parents and pervasive sexism to find art and romance on her own terms. Whether writing for Judy Holliday or Rin Tin Tin, dating Hal Prince or falling for Stephen Sondheim over a game of chess at thirteen, Rodgers grabbed every chance possible—and then some. Both an eyewitness report from the golden age of American musical theater and a tale of a woman striving for a meaningful life, Shy is, above all, a chance to sit at the feet of the kind of woman they don’t make anymore—and never did. They make themselves.

Memoirs of a Shy Girl

Author: Widalys L. De Soto-burt
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530893379
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122

Book Description
With humor and complete vulnerability, Widalys walks you through some of the most humiliating, lowest points of her life, as she shares why these turned out to be key enablers of her transformation from crippling shyness to bold confidence. Labeled a "shy girl" by everyone, including herself, Widalys thought she was bound to suffer from social anxiety forever. That was until she discovered the life-changing steps that would take her from shy and insecure to confident. Join Widalys as she takes you through her list of Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Challenges as a guide to help you achieve your own transformation. Explore each of these challenges and learn why they work. If you are a parent, teacher, or friend of someone who is shy, do the words "You are so shy," "Why are you so shy?" or "You need to stop being shy" ever escape your mouth? If so, you are not alone. Learn why these words, although well intended, do not work and may actually exacerbate the problem. Join Widalys as she provides practical advice to those seeking to help someone suffering from shyness and social anxiety to empower them to achieve a happy, fulfilling, and confident life.

Brave

Author: Helen Rivas-Rose
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982743300
Category : Bashfulness
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
Born of a long life of suffering from shyness, this memoir reveals the hurt and anguish that acutely shy people experience. Rivas-Rose's message can help inspire other shy people to overcome their own pain.

Stuck Inside - Memoirs of a Shy Guy

Author: James P. Monacell
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781794818712
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Through vignettes proceeding through life, the author depicts his struggles, as a boy, teen and man, with excruciating shyness and his progress in conquering his affliction. Raised Catholic in the D.C. suburbs, little Jimmy finds himself literally and figuratively on a runaway go-car, with only the vaguest idea of how to control braking or steering. Arriving at William and Mary, Jim is fascinated by an unrepressed girl, but must free his barricaded thoughts to form a relationship. Fueled by his desire to participate fully in life, his efforts include a stint as a crisis counselor, who must help a potential suicide embrace a trying life. Jim marries, strives to become an Atlanta mega-firm lawyer, fathers three children, and confronts the everyday challenges of contemporary life.

Shy: How Being Quiet Can Lead to Success

Author: Annie Ridout
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000840187X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 147

Book Description
Society tells that us that being shy is a fault, but Annie Ridout says it’s a gift. Shy: How being quiet can lead to success teaches us how to embrace this misjudged attribute, instead of trying to fix it.

The Shy Person's Book

Author: Claire Rayner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bashfulness
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description

Shy

Author: Naomi K. Lewis
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 0888646704
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
A collection of Canadian literature on the topic of shyness.

The Girl Who Doesn’T Talk

Author: Susanna Klein
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475964676
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Susanna Klein never meant to insist on silence. But after the shy and sensitive little girl entered school and rarely spoke out loud, she was labeled as the girl who doesnt talk. Helplessly trapped within her quiet world, Susanna taught herself how to talk without moving her lips. Sadly, no one understood her suffering or her condition: selective mutism. In her compelling memoir, Susanna shares not only her powerful life story, but also her painful yet authentic journey inside her innermost thoughts as she details how her profound shyness permeated every area of her life and held her back from many of lifes best experiences. As she embarks on a coming-of-age journey into adulthood, Susanna soon realizes she is stuck, unable to move on in her relationships or career. Desperate for answers but without any idea of where to turn, Susanna has no idea she is about to be saved by a sunny, golden little boy. The Girl Who Doesnt Talk offers a touching, informative look at one womans journey to redeem her painful past as she gains the understanding, self-acceptance, and peace that finally allows her to walk confidently into her future.

Diary of a Shy Girl

Author: Akpene R Zikpi
Publisher: Pageturner Press and Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
About the Book: Diary Of A Shy Girl is a memoir of an adolescent girl. From a strict Pentecostal home, she feels alone and doesn't open up easily to others about her home life, which she describes as unfair. She enjoys visiting her home country but she feels out of place. Her life is changed forever as she searches for the meaning of God in her life after her father passes away. When she finally falls in love, she doesn't know how to make her feelings known to the one man she considers to be her first true love. Diary Of A Shy Girl is sure to amuse and perplex as it reveals the heart of an adolescent child growing up through the pressures and difficulties of puberty.