Hey, folks, Jonathan Sue here. I'm taking a week off from the podcast, but I wanted to share

something from my friends at McMillan Publishers. A lot of people listen to music and podcasts

while they work out, but audiobooks are another great entertainment option for your fitness routine.

This week, I'm sharing an excerpt from Pocket Therapy, from author and psychotherapist Sarah Crosby.

Pocket Therapy is a book designed to help you answer, Who am I? What does it mean to be yourself,

or authentic?

In this segment, Sarah discusses a concept called self-talk.

I wanted to share this segment in particular because negative self-talk can sometimes get in the way of our fitness goals.

If you want to hear more, you can find pocket therapy at your local bookstore or online

wherever you buy books. I'll be back next week with an episode on whether massage guns,

also known as percussive therapy devices, really work. See you then.

3. Self-talk. How to be kinder to yourself. You will never speak to anyone more than you speak to yourself in your head. Be kind to yourself. Unknown. Have you ever caught yourself berating something you've done?

Perhaps you've been speaking meanly to yourself for simply being yourself,

or putting yourself down for not being smart, funny, slim, good, successful, whatever else, enough?

Do you find you compare yourself to others, or make assumptions that

others don't like you? If so, don't worry, you're not alone. In the pages that follow,

we'll look at ways that we can start to change this, including getting to know what stories we've created

in our own heads about ourselves, how we talk to ourselves on a day-to-day basis, thinking

traps that we tend to fall into, and how we can start to heal our own self-talk so that we

generally feel better in ourselves. So let's get going. Our stories about

ourselves. We all craft and create a story in our own head about who we are. The tale is usually

elaborate and multifaceted. It includes some fundamentals such as our name, age, background,

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