Notice Your Negative Self-Talk

That voice in your head (the one that talks you out of things before you've even tried) isn't telling you the truth. It's just repeating what's familiar and it may even believe it is keeping you safe. Sometimes that maybe true and other times it may be simply stopping you from experiencing life.

When I was working on my own negative self-talk what I realized is that I don't have to silence it over night or feel confident, ready or even certain to start working on it and neither do you.  You just need one small step you're willing to take today.

That's what this free guide walks you through: how to catch the negative self-talk in the moment, question it, and replace it with a next step you can actually take, not someday, but today. Register for free and join us.

Your negative self-talk can be critical, exaggerated, pressuring, catastrophic or simply unhelpful and it might sound like:

“I always mess things up.”
“They're probably annoyed with me.”
“I cannot handle this.”
“This is a disaster.”

The interesting part is that negative self-talk often does not sound particularly negative when it first appears. It can sound like an ordinary explanation of what happened and that is why noticing it matters because what you think are harmless things you are saying to yourself may have a limiting impact on your life.

In my 20s, and before I became a Personal Growth Coach, a lot of my negative self-talk was all about what people might be saying about me and that meant I really stop myself taking even the smallest of risks. I got upset if someone looked in my direction and laughed. I convinced myself they were laughing at me or what I looked like or what I was wearing. I lived in my head and I soon understood that negative self-talk takes shows up in many different ways.