Episode Details

Words are powerful. They can lift you up and motivate your forward or tear you down and create non-starter moments. Negative self-talk can have a powerful effect not only on your mental wellness but also, how you show up and perform in life. Unfortunately, negative self-talk comes all too easily, but there are ways to catch yourself from this type of talk without missing a beat. 

Learn how to make simple changes in your language in this episode of the Mindful Life Changes Podcast (formerly known as the Mindful Career Change podcast), with host Valerie Mekki. She provides examples of the most common negative self-talk prompts, and how a simple change of words can make an impactful and positive difference to your mindset, and how you can take action in your career changing journey. She also shares a positive self-talk affirmation to help remind you to speak kinder to yourself with love and encouragement so those negative self-talk prompts begin to slowly fade away from your everyday language. 

Show Notes and Timestamps:

[00:00:53] Intro to the affirmation

[00:01:32] Words are powerful

[00:02:48] Most common negative self-talk prompts

[00:04:25] The language we use has a profound impact on our mindset and behavior

[00:05:52] Start of affirmation with a body scan

[00:06:26] Memorizing the affirmation

[00:07:08] Repeating the affirmation out loud

[00:07:56] Visualizing the affirmation 

[00:09:48] How to make your affirmation sticky

[00:11:06] End 

Curious to learn how to make your affirmations sticky? Listen to episode 1 and I’ll walk you through how to make your affirmation practice a more effective and transformative tool for your career changing journey.

You’re listening to the right show, formerly known as the Mindful Life Changes or Mindful Career Change. We’ve pivoted through the years, but finally landed on the right path: content for moms in the ‘Sandwich Generation’, because midlife disruption doesn't have to break you. 

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This podcast explores patience, meditation, confidence, presence, and overcoming resentment while cultivating calm, peace, mindfulness, clarity, mantras, and addressing loneliness and burn out; it covers boundaries, caregiving, guilt, affirmations, working moms, self-care, midlife crisis, empty nesters, empowerment, people pleasing, compassion fatigue, family caregiving, stress relief, self-worth, stress management, and how to shift from reactive to centered when feeling short tempered, offering tools for self acceptance, easing mental exhaustion, building emotional resilience, harnessing inner strength, and preventing caregiver fatigue for those in the sandwich generation through expert advice on boundaries setting.