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 there, it's Trish Blackwell, and you're listening to The Confidence Podcast. This episode of 565 and my hope is that this episode is going to give you the tools.

The wisdom, the insight, then know how the right questions to be able to tell the fine line between fact and fiction in your thoughts.

In this episode, we're going to talk about exactly how to know the difference between which thoughts you should believe and which ones you should change, which ones are optional, and which ones are real.

Because if you want to decrease your stress levels and enjoy your life more, if you want to believe in yourself and actually have a healthy, positive relationship with yourself so that you can get beyond the self-created drama that's getting you in the way of you living on your purpose of being the best mom that you can be.

Being the best business owner, of being courageous, of going and launching that non-profit that you've both been streamed of.

You'll realize that a lot of her thoughts are creating optional drama, and that optional drama is blocking us from a way to move forward.

We're going to talk about how to de-dramatize your thinking.

In the College of Confidence, in my coaching program, we call this de-dramatization, and we're going to walk through that and determine which ones you are able to change and which ones you need to be more proactive about and how to neutralize those.

These tips this week are going to give you some mental peace and some power back in your narrative.

We're talking this week about optional drama and honestly how it's making your life harder than it needs to be.

The fact versus fiction question that we all need to be asking ourselves every single day and then really the core takeaways, how to feel less stressed and more drama-free in your life.

In your life, in your decisions, in your relationships, in your thoughts about yourself, in your body, in your thoughts about your capacity, we over-aggrandize things.

We overthink things. We create our own misery, our own stress.

The level to which we experience stress in our life is entirely up to you.

Your stress level and your insecurity level and your experience of life is entirely self-created, which feels like what that can't be true, but it is.

It is absolutely crazy, how powerful your mind is, and my prayers at this episode helps you tap into it just a little bit more.

Very quickly before we read the review of the week, our announcement of the week is that I have one open coaching spot.

If you want private coaching, one-on-one coaching, it is a next level experience with me.

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