using act for social anxiety

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Hi everyone, I hope you are all finding A.C.T helpful. I have been using it for about for months now and am finding it very useful especially the expansion and defusion techniques for everday thoughts and feelings and in getting me to actually go to events that help me connect with my values, eventhough i fell very nervous and even dread them sometimes due to the uncomfortable feelings.

However, I am putting A.C.T to good use to try and help me with social anxiety but I am finding i am struggling to use expansion whilst actually being in the social situations that make me so anxious. for example if i were to practice expansion whilst talking to someone I would miss everything that they were saying which obviously defeats the purpous of talking to them. does anybody have any advice on how to use act to help with this ? I welcome any experiences anyone would like to tell me about in realtion to this.

Many thanks