Stop Lying to Yourself: The Stories That Keep You Stuck

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Phil walks you through a five-step plan to rewrite your life story, heal old wounds, and finally live from the truth not the trauma.

In this episode, Dr. Phil takes you step by step through a powerful five-part action plan to stop letting one painful event run your entire life. First, you’ll isolate a single target event that has shaped how you see yourself and the world. Then you’ll audit your internal responses—blame, self-talk, labels, and the “tapes” that still play in your head. DPM shows you how to test those beliefs for authenticity, replace destructive fiction with Authentically Accurate Alternatives, and identify your Minimal Effective Response the smallest real action that brings emotional closure. By the end, you’ll have a concrete process to stop reliving the same chapter and start writing a new one on purpose.

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0:44.5	If you're selling a car and you're asking $30,000 for it, what do you think chances are?
0:45.6	Somebody's going to say, you know what?
0:48.7	I can't give you $30 for that.
0:49.7	I'm going to have to give you $40.
0:52.1	What?
0:57.7	I'm only asking $30. I know, but I think you should have have 40. You're never going to get more than you ask for. You have to at least ask for what you want.
1:12.7	Hey, thanks for joining me today. I have a question for you.
1:14.2	You didn't think you're going to show up and not go to work, did you?
1:17.7	Here's the question.
1:19.9	Do you think you believe yourself?
1:25.2	I mean, do you trust what you say to yourself?
1:30.3	Now, think about that for a minute before you answer.
1:33.6	Because you talk to yourself all the time, and you've got to ask yourself,
1:40.8	what if I do believe myself, and then what if I don't? And this gets down to
1:47.9	just day-to-day things as well as big life decisions. Like, what if you don't believe yourself?
1:54.1	And you're telling yourself, well, wait a minute, if I pull out into traffic, I don't have time.
2:01.9	I won't make it.
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