Mindful Monday for Oct. 12

The Mindful Monday for this week is a reminder about positive self-talk. Do you ever feel like your internal voice is your own worst critic? No one speaks as negatively to us as our own mind, especially when we are under stress. That chatter is a trick -- it makes normal feelings of stress feel catastrophic, and it makes us feel like failures. Try a different approach by giving your internal voice a third-person perspective. Instead of "You aren't good enough," try this: "[Name], what are you dealing with right now?" It's much harder for that chatter to run wild when it's addressing you directly than when it's a disembodied critic. Try this next time your inner critic starts to get loud, and see if you can steer it to a more empathetic conversation.

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