Taking Things Personally

The Richard Nicholls Mental Health Podcast

Richard Nicholls

Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Health & Fitness, Wellbeing, Education, Anxiety, Happiness, Self-improvement, Depression, Self Help, Psychology, Alternative Health, Counseling, Counselling

4.8 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Send us a text One thing we can all guarantee is that we'll all receive some sort of criticism at some point. The trick is to not let it get under our skin. Easier said than done though, but don't let that stop you. Support the show Join our Evolve to Thrive 6 month programme https://therapynatters.com Join the Patreon community https://www.patreon.com/richardnicholls Social Media Links Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/richardnicholls.net Threads https://www.threads.net/@richardnicholls...

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0:00.0	And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development
0:08.0	Podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.
0:16.4	I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this episode is titled Taking Things Personally.
0:22.7	And if you're ready, we'll start the show.
0:30.1	Hello, you beautiful, wonderful people. What have you all been up to? I've been stretching my
0:36.4	comfort zone a bit. I directed a play last week.
0:41.0	I've been acting on stage for 20 years or more, but I've never directed before, which was interesting.
0:47.4	I think I'd much rather be up on the stage, though. It's a lot less stressful. It was great, though.
0:52.5	No one walked out halfway through which is always nice.
0:55.3	That did happen to a play I was in once. We did a children's play one afternoon and
1:02.4	someone came in not realizing it was for kids and left at the interval, which we totally
1:07.6	understood of course and I'm glad someone overheard them talking so we knew why they left so that we didn't take it personally.
1:15.4	We knew it was because of them and not because of anything we've done.
1:20.4	But it's hard for some people to not take things personally, though, because there's a correlation with low self-esteem, and that's a fairly lengthy job to
1:30.3	improve. Not impossible, otherwise I wouldn't have a job. And actually, even just being a listener
1:35.5	to my podcast series will improve your self-esteem if you listen and learn. It just takes
1:40.9	quite a while for it to become permanent. So work on that and it is going to be
1:46.0	easier to let things that people do or say just bounce off you. But what can we do to create a
1:54.5	positive effect right now? Are there things we can do to help prevent us from taking things personally? Because in doing so,
2:03.0	you might find it's got a positive influence then on your self-esteem, which is maybe a big part
2:08.8	of why you take things personally in the first place. As always, I think it starts with
2:15.4	understanding it, getting some awareness of the mistakes in your thinking that then allows you to see things from a different angle.
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