4 Simple Steps to Battle Negative Self-Talk
The stories we tell ourselves would make a really bad novel
I’m not going to bore you with a long introduction because I don’t need to waste your time telling you what you already know — if you spoke to another person like you talk at yourself all day, that person wouldn’t be your friend for very long. Let’s skip the crash course in the psychology behind your internal narrative and get straight to the point.
There are lots of words floating through our heads every day and not many of them are positive.
What are we going to do about that?
1.Write it out
Sometimes we’re too close to ourselves to actually hear what we’re saying inside our heads. If someone walks up and screams in your ear, the shock drowns out the meaning. We do the same thing to ourselves every waking moment of the day.
Our emotional reaction obscures the message when it comes to self-talk. Feelings are tangible. Internal narratives are vague. But, to get to the source of our feelings, we need to discover what we’re saying to ourselves that inspires all those sensations of dread and worthlessness.
The easiest path to discovery is simply writing it all down.
