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Hello, everyone.

Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for all of your support.

And I wish you all good things in the new year.

So today, I want to start talking to you about dealing with self-talk.

There's a lot of self-talk that we learn about, like how to say good and acknowledging things and supportive things to ourselves.

Like, you've got this, or it'll all be okay, or this two shall pass, or,

hmm, you did a good job last time, so you can do a good job again this time, or whatever it is,

that helps you.

The problem is that a lot of the self-talk we have that we might not even be aware of is negative self-talk.

There was a book many years ago called What to Say When You Talk to Yourself.

It was fascinating. I love the title.

But it shows how important it is to be aware of what we have learned to say to ourselves or what we have taught ourselves

to think about ourselves in a negative way. So what happens is that it becomes persistent,

again, subconscious, very shaming, and especially for people who have been in cults or have

been in controlling relationships. This is a trained, highly trained inner critic. And it's

something that you carry with you a lot of times for a long time after you have left

these situations.

Just to let you know, as we move forward, we're going to be talking about shame and internalize

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