Need a confidence boost? 'Try This.'
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🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Affirmations help alleviate stress and can make you emotionally and mentally stronger. Host Cristina Quinn talks to clinical psychologist Natalie Dattilo-Ryan about what kinds of affirmations are most effective. She lays out an exercise to help get you started with identifying the right kinds of statements to shore up your sense of self. Next, we dive into research on affirmations and stress levels with Carnegie Mellon University psychology and neuroscience professor David Creswell. Creswell’s work reveals how affirmations can activate the brain's reward system.
For more on how to make affirmations work for you, read this from The Post’s Allyson Chiu.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, so this was a big week for politics. Of course, there was the debate between |
| 0:06.2 | former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamla Harris. If you want to dive in more |
| 0:11.4 | on the reactions to the debate performances, we've got a new episode |
| 0:15.6 | of the campaign moment coming out today. |
| 0:18.1 | In that episode, it's only going to be available on our separate podcast, The Campaign Moment. |
| 0:22.8 | So go into your podcast app, find the campaign moment, |
| 0:26.6 | and get that episode queued up for your weekend listening. |
| 0:30.4 | In the meantime, here on Post Reports, we've got something different today. |
| 0:34.4 | A show about affirmations. |
| 0:36.9 | And it comes to us from another Washington Post podcast called Try This. |
| 0:41.4 | Try This is a series of audio courses. It's hosted by my colleague Christina Quinn. |
| 0:48.0 | And let me tell you, as someone who gets to work with Christina, she is delightful. She is hilarious. She is someone that you want to spend time with. Christina loves life hacks and she loves helping people learn how to improve their lives. |
| 1:03.3 | And that brings us back to affirmations, |
| 1:06.1 | the subject of the latest try this course. |
| 1:09.2 | Affirmations are the I am statements |
| 1:12.1 | that you're supposed to say to yourself in moments of stress or self-doubt. |
| 1:16.7 | And Christina has a whole new framing on why affirmations work and how to make them work for you. |
| 1:24.7 | So after a busy news week, it felt like this would be a nice way to end the week. |
| 1:30.1 | We're going to play you the first part of that course today. |
| 1:32.8 | And after you listen, be sure to follow, Try This, |
| 1:36.2 | in your podcast app. |
| 1:37.8 | Okay, here we go. |
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