The negative emotion stops feeling wrong, and you see it for what it is: a normal part of being a human. No matter where you are, life will always be a mixed bag of emotions.
Your self-talk patterns aren’t just harmless observations; they’re the drivers of your emotional life. Develop an inner BS detector for your own sake.
We’re constantly absorbing messages about living seemingly perfect lives, so it's easy to beat ourselves up and focus on what's wrong rather than what's right.
I reflected on why so many of us suffer from imposter syndrome, anxiety, and low confidence. But the real question is how could we not?
Remember what exists within you, exists within all of us – it’s just different degrees and variations.
Evaluating your thoughts from a place of curiosity, interest, and change helps reveal your relationship with yourself. You can make that relationship exactly what you want it to be.
I started to rely on others’ opinions to feel good about myself, leaving me in a continuous state of trying to please them. What I thought they wanted became more important than what I wanted.
I remember wishing other people believed in me more. I thought if only my boss, or my partner, or my family believed in me, then I’d have more courage to reach my goals.
A lot of our pain comes from an attachment to how we think the world should be — we carry around ‘rules’ for how other people should behave so we feel better.
When you look for your own happiness from things outside of you, you become dependent on those things. When you find happiness internally, you become independent.