Veterinary Wellbeing Wisdom Tiny Bites - Evicting the Squatters Inside Your Head

When babies learn to walk, they make hundreds of balance mistakes before they finally manage to string a few steps together. When students take their college boards, most of them feel very anxious, and sometimes over-think things, creating mistakes where they wouldn’t have been.

When babies fall they don’t chastise themselves. When students get a bad grade on a test, they do chastise themselves.

What happens in the intervening 20 or so years? Other people imposing their expectations on us. Next time you notice your brain beating you up for making a mistake – stop and listen. Whose words are those? Whose disapproval is that? Not yours – you don’t talk to other people like that, so you must have learned that behavior from someone else.

I’m here to gently remind you to realize those negative words inside your brain are someone else’s experience of you and you don’t have to continue living their experience. You can say something like, “Oh, there I go again, letting someone else’s words make me feel bad. I’m way better than that!” And then change the subject. Don’t let your brain talk to you in ways you would NEVER talk to another person. You’re way to good to feel so bad! 

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