TALKING TO YOURSELF
A few years ago I heard a brilliant variation of an old saying which has resonated with me ever since. It says simply:
‘Sticks and stones may break my bonesBut words can permanently damage me’.
I heard these words on MTV and I imagine the musician who said them was thinking about words spoken by others to you. And he was right. But what we don’t always consider, and what may be even more important, are the words we say to ourselves about ourselves. You and I spend huge amounts of time talking to ourselves. Those conversations that go on in our head all the time where we assess why things happened to us (or didn’t happen), who controlled what happened (or didn’t happen) and why we reacted in certain ways (or didn’t react ...
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