Hi guys welcome back to the show you're listening to style your mind I'm your

host Carol Allwell and I am so happy to be back with you thank you for joining me

today so I want to talk about negative thought spirals raise your hand if you

have found yourself in a negative thought spiral I'm laughing because I'm

raising my hand like as if someone can see me alone in this room but I know

that I have been there many many times my friends have been there my family has

been there my clients have been there you wouldn't be human if you didn't allow

negative thoughts and scary thoughts to overpower you sometimes right happens to

all of us we can be having a great day or a great week or a great month and

then something happens and we allow it to just completely take over our minds

good news is there are ways to get out of that spiral there are ways to distract

yourself from it there are ways to curb it and there are ways to catch it

early so that you don't allow it to become something that becomes a pattern for

you right for me it definitely happens from time to time I would be lying if I

said it didn't it actually happened to me this morning I found myself with

some really intrusive thoughts and I had to use these tools that I'm gonna share

with you on the show today many times this morning to constantly redirect my

mind and ultimately I was able to get out of it and I thought you know why not

just jump on the podcast and share this because I'm sure someone's listening

right now who needs to hear this so let's talk about what a negative

thought spiral is essentially it's the ability to let one scary thought become

amplified in our minds and become something that not only overpowers us but

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