You're listening to the Confidence Podcast. Your favorite coaching podcast oozes in with motivation, inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take action on your dreams.

On your host, Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized Confidence Coach, best-selling author, and founder of the College of Confidence, the most encouraging place on the Internet.

I teach go-getters in life how to take their thoughts captive, how to step out of the shadows of self-doubt, and how to courageously step into their purpose with confidence.

It's time to pump our confidence muscles and train our thoughts y'all. Let's get started.

Hey guys, it's Trish Blackwell, and you are listening to the Confidence Podcast episode 466. We're talking today about how to think better thoughts, how to reframe your thinking.

And even more specifically, how to think better thoughts even if you struggle with anxiety or overwhelm, because here's the deal, you become the person that you think that you are.

And I know that you've heard so many addages about what you think matters and train your thoughts and positive thinking, and if you think you can do it, you can.

But what if you think about yourself as a person who struggles with thinking? I know that I once did, and so I hope that that today's episode brings you a lot of encouragement.

Because the thoughts you think about yourself and about your life are critically important, but what if you find yourself bogged down with negative thoughts, with critical thinking, with self-pressure, with thoughts that aren't good, and they feel overwhelming and hard to manage, or you feel completely out of control in your thoughts.

Or what if you struggle with anxiety and depression and overwhelm in the thoughts, then maybe then you think that most people do.

Listen, this episode is for you. This episode will empower you on the exact methods you can use to think better thoughts.

Even if you've never mastered this skill set before, I can't wait to dive in this with you, and listen, I want you to know that I used to think that I was unhelpable in this area.

And literally this is now what I do full time. So I hope you take that as a story of hope and encouragement if I can do it, if I can learn how to do it, if God can work through my brain and change it and transform it, you can too.

So in this episode of The Confidence Podcast, I'm going to be coaching you today on the key to being more than just a positive thinker.

I don't want you to just have positive thoughts. I want you to have powerful thoughts.

And then how to manage your thoughts and make your brain work for you. And then my method, the way I, in my actual real life, confidently managed my anxiety, my overwhelm, and myself doubts, because I had an anxiety disorder for years.

I am a tightly wound type A, baby, anyogram three driven, focused, and y'all, that there's so many healthy, wonderful things and gifts in that personality.

And there's a lot of unhealthy ways that that can manifest. And so I've found a way to manage my anxiety, my overwhelm, myself doubt, and I want to share it with you.

So hey, before we dive in, let's highlight our review of the week. This one, this one made my soul sing. It's from D green W four five stars life changing.

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