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Living Easy with Lindsey

142 | Are Your Thoughts Ruining Your Life?: How to Break the Habit of Negative Thinking

Living Easy with Lindsey

Lindsey Maestas

God, Divorce, Society & Culture, Relationships, Faith, Family, Marriage, Depression, Anxiety, Motherhood, Married, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Do you feel like your mind is a constant battleground? In this powerful episode, Lindsey Maestas dives deep into the reality of how negative thoughts, lies from the enemy, and habitual unhealthy patterns can physically impact your health and happiness.

She discusses how anxious attachment and unchecked cognitive distortions like catastrophizing or black-and-white thinking can trap you in a cycle of stress and illness, and strengthen the addiction of negativity through neural pathways. 

Lindsey shares how living out an active faith, creating new thought patterns, and focusing on our own personal growth--rather than blameshifting--can change everything.

She calls you up to:

  • Understand the Mind-Body Connection: Understand how chronic stress and negative emotions create real physical symptoms.
  • Taking Thoughts Captive: Practical strategies to identify, challenge, and reframe limiting beliefs and destructive habits.
  • Rewire Your Brain: Discover how to create new neural pathways through consistent practice and scriptural truth.
  • Live Out an Active Faith: Learn how to move from a passive to an active faith, choosing emotional regulation and intentional living.

This episode is filled with actionable steps and biblical wisdom to help you reshape your negative thinking and experience a healthier, more joyful, and more positive life.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Living Easy podcast.

0:04.5

I have to be honest with you and tell you that I recorded this entire episode.

0:10.7

When I tell you that I am the least tech savvy person in the entire world, I really mean it.

0:16.7

So I recorded a 45 minute episode and realized that one of the buttons was pressed that wasn't

0:21.7

supposed to be pressed on my panel. And you couldn't hear the audio. So here we are. We're back

0:31.0

with a much more clear mind. And I've already gone through the information and talked about it. So

0:36.4

it's going to be even better now.

0:38.4

With all of that said, let's jump in to today's conversation on our thoughts because positive

0:44.6

thoughts change everything and negative thoughts can really steal from our lives and

0:51.0

ultimately ruin our lives if we let them.

0:57.4

So I speak on this because this is something I've been focusing pretty heavily on lately. And it's because anxiety has held me captive

1:03.5

for much of my life. The more that I talk to securely attached people, I don't know if you

1:09.6

know about anxious attachments or just attachment

1:12.0

theory attachment styles, but it's worth looking into. There's anxious attachment, secure

1:17.2

attachment, avoidant attachment, fearful avoidant. I tend to err on the anxious side where I live

1:24.3

in a lot of fear with relationships and my mind kind of spirals. And so I realized when

1:31.4

my anxiety was at an all-time high, I started feeling it in my body. Like my body felt like a

1:38.7

battlefield and it displayed itself in panic and heart palpitations.

1:45.9

I was telling Jesse in the car one day, I was like, I keep having heart palpitations when a situation had happened.

1:51.5

And I was stressed about it.

1:53.2

And I was like, I'm feeling this a lot.

1:54.9

This feels unhealthy.

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