John White Jr. Audiobooks

For anyone who dreads the room: Relief from Social Anxiety

1 audiobook reviewed

Who is John White Jr.?

John White Jr. is the name on Relief from Social Anxiety in our catalogue, and we will be straight with you: solid biographical detail about this particular author is elusive. John White is among the most common of names, shared by several unrelated writers and academics, so rather than pin someone else’s life story to this work we prefer to keep to what the work itself tells us.

What it tells us is an orientation: an author working in practical self-help, on one of its most quietly widespread subjects. Social anxiety is the sort of difficulty people rarely announce, which is exactly why books addressing it directly continue to find their audience.

John White Jr. in audiobooks

Relief from Social Anxiety is built, by its own title, around a promise of practical help, and the audiobook format is unusually well suited to that promise. Listening is private – no cover to display on the train, no book left on the coffee table – and a calm voice talking you through a difficulty can land differently from words on a page.

As with all self-help, the sensible approach is modest expectation and honest effort: a title like this earns its keep if it hands you even two or three usable tools. On that basis it is a low-risk, potentially high-value listen.