Well, hello there. It's Morgan Harper-Nichols here. I'm an artist and a writer, and this is a space where I turn the lens on various topics and subjects in hopes to learn something new or see something in a new way. And today's episode is called How to Overcome Negative self-talk.

Thanks for listening. I'm Morgan Harper-Nichols.

The way we talk to ourselves matters, and if the words we speak to ourselves are not kind and are not rooted in truth, they can be a lot more damaging than we realize.

This is negative self-talk, and it can often sound like this.

I'm just not good enough.

I'm not smart enough.

I'm so ugly.

There's no way I'm going to be any good at this.

I'm way too awkward.

Why can't I just do things right? Why can't I get myself together?

Why am I so dumb? Why was I so naive? There's no way they're ever inviting me again.

If I don't get this right, it's over for me. If I don't figure this out this year, there's no chance I'll make it.

If any of that happens to sound familiar, one thing that is so important for us to remember

is that negative self-talk can take years to unlearn.

But the beautiful thing is, it can be unlearned.

In the same way it was taken in, it can also be released.

You may have lived with some of these words for a very long time, but you do not have to hold

onto them forever. There is still room to let them go. There is still time to be free to believe that there are kinder ways

of speaking to yourself, and it's worth the journey of exploring what those ways are. Because beneath

those words, you can actually acknowledge what you are feeling in the moment. And if you can,

you could take the time to even journal out what those actual

feelings are and the stories that lie underneath the negative things you've said about yourself.

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