Self Talk
Self talk.
I am not nice to myself.
Full stop.
It's gotten worse lately, while I navigate a pretty busy season.
While I balance the competing needs of my work, my husband, my family, my physical/mental/emotional needs.
When I say these thoughts aloud, my husband often responds:
"That's not true."
I scoff.
It is so, so easy to let your self talk run away with itself.
It can feel like a full-time job to catch your thoughts and say:
🚫 THAT IS A LIE
🚫 THE EVIDENCE SHOWS OTHERWISE
🚫 EM, YOU WOULDN'T SAY THAT TO A FRIEND
I believed my thoughts this weekend.
Every last one of them.
Without evidence to support them.
In the face of evidence to the contrary.
But, it is a new day, and I can keep trying.
This week, I aim to be nicer to myself.
I hope you will be nice to yourself too.
We're all human after all.
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