Daily Thoughts
6/22/21
Self-Talk. For many of us, our self-talk tells us that we are less than good enough. We have heard messages from childhood that tell us that we need to be different than who we are designed to be. We have listened to commercials that tell us that we need to buy their product in order to be happy. This reinforces that self-talk that there’s something wrong with us. How we counteract those messages? How do we reframe our self-talk? How do we avoid the ongoing messages that bombard us in commercials, billboards, and other advertisements that tell us that this medication will make us feel better, that this makeup will make us feel better about ourselves, that this exercise program is the one that will transform our bodies, etc.?
From where I sit, I take the first step by tuning out as many of those external messages as possible. I also make note of the internal messages and actively rewrite and reframe them into messages of self-love in place of self-derogation. It’s a daily task. But it is worth the effort!
From Where I Sit with Dr. Mark 