Welcome to the Balance Black Girl Podcast. We're putting Black Girl Magic in motion.

This show is dedicated to reinventing wellness for women of color.

I'm your host Lestrandra Alfred. Thank you so much for joining me for

this week's Feel Good Friday episode of the Balance Black Girl podcast. I am so

happy to have you. So for this week's Feel Good Friday, the topic we're going to be diving

into is self-talk and more importantly the importance of implementing positive self-talk and how you can overcome

negative self-talk and why it's so important to set aside negative self-talk. So this is a topic that I have been personally exploring quite

a bit because truth be told I am really good at negative self-talk and I think a lot of us are it can be

very very easy to feel like we want to protect ourselves by constantly planning for or dwelling on the worst or by

constantly selling ourselves

that maybe we can't do or achieve something.

But before we really dive into the importance of positive self-talk

and how to start letting go of negative self-talk,

I first want to take a step back and talk about what self-talk is.

So self-talk isn't necessarily that you're walking around, you know, verbally speaking out

aloud to yourself, but when I'm referring to self-talk, really what I'm talking about

are our thoughts, are the reinforcements that we give ourselves.

The inner dialogue that we have with ourselves as we are making decisions or going about our daily life.

So what you kind of say to yourself internally

is what I am referring to when it comes to self-talk.

And for a lot of us, myself included,

it can be very, very easy to fall into patterns of self-talk that are very toxic, and that can feel very, very negative.

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