How to Maintain Your Sanity Despite Your Negative Self-Talk
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Welcome to Self Care IRL: The Podcast, where we’ll be exploring strategies and ideas for becoming your best self. This podcast will inspire you to take life by the horns and enjoy the ride despite your traumas or circumstances. Sharing the most intimate parts of myself with you… I’m your host, Ty Alexander.
On the outside looking in, I seem to have it all together. I get asked all the time what inspires me to keep moving forward. And the truth is, on a daily basis I want to give up. I struggle with what my success means. I am a slave to imposter syndrome and I am constantly trying to validate how I got here. I also struggle with situational depression. I may be a successful writer, but I often struggle with whether or not I deserve to be here because nothing about my success is traditional. In this episode, I confess to my self-sabotaging ways and share some practical ways I maintain my sanity despite this tendency.
5 Ways to Crush Your Negative Self-Talk
I recognize that my feelings are not factual. I first heard this from Myleik and it is such an important reminder.
Share the shame. If you feel yourself spiraling, tell your friends. They’ll either commiserate with you or tell you you’re tripping. Both are valuable.
Take stock in daily accomplishments and celebrate them. No accomplishment is too small. Did you get out of bed today? I’m proud of you. And don’t be afraid to hype yourself up about the big accomplishments, too. You deserve to brag about yourself.
Focus on the work you’re doing. When you put the work first you automatically silence that false idea in your head of being a fraud. Because it’s not about you, it’s about the work you are doing. PeriodT!
Most importantly, do not beat yourself up for the things you fall short of. I bet right now you’re saying to yourself ‘I knew those four tips already.’ Me too, sis! But we are humans. We forget. We need reminders.
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