Microscripts We Live By: The Tiny Lies That Shape Us

Calm it Down

Chad Lawson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever said “I’m fine” when you weren’t even close? Microscripts are those tiny, polite phrases we use to smooth things over. They might help us survive awkward moments, but they can also keep us from being seen. In this episode, we explore how to notice the stories we tell out of habit and gently rewrite them in a voice that sounds more like us. Say what you mean (but softer), as we Calm it Down in 3...2...1.

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0:00.0	Do you remember when streaming services first came out and you thought, why would I need that when I have cable?
0:09.0	Yeah, this is kind of like that moment.
0:11.7	Welcome to Calm It Down Deeper.
0:15.0	It's everything you love about this podcast, right?
0:18.8	But supersized.
0:20.6	With every episode being ad-free, you're not going to be
0:24.5	hearing ads like you are right now. You're getting them early on Sunday instead of Tuesday.
0:30.2	And you get exclusive content such as meditations, the evening calms, the calm the Sunday scaries, the list goes on and on and on.
0:42.3	And all of the behind-the-scenes content that will make you feel like you are part of an inner circle,
0:48.5	which is exactly what it is, a deeper community of calm.
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0:57.0	because sometimes more is actually, well, more.
1:02.9	Look for a comment down deeper.
1:05.6	Join us today.
1:08.5	Thanks.
1:09.8	And now, on with the episode. What's something you've said this week that wasn't
1:17.3	entirely true? Not a lie, exactly, just edited. Maybe it was a casual, I'm good when someone
1:27.4	asked how you were on On a day when good,
1:30.6	felt about as accurate as saying a tornado is a breeze, right? Or, hey, no worries at all. When you
1:39.2	were, in fact, stewing like a human teapot, lid rattling from pressure. These are what I call microscripts.
1:48.3	Tiny phrases we say on autopilot, often polite, often protective, but almost always rehearsed.
1:57.8	Microscopes are the subtle way to rewrite reality, not with the intent to deceive, but to diffuse,
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