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A few years ago I read "Learned Optimism" by Martin Seligman. I have slowly worked on changing my self-talk deliberately. It has made a huge difference in all situations. Telling myself that this specific activity will go well or that I will enjoy a conversation, reduces the angst and anxiety.

Obviously mistakes still happen and those suck but these events aren't as common as we may believe.

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Simple in theory, sometimes difficult to execute, but it sounds like it’s working for you 😊

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Insightful and oh so incredibly accurate. Reading this I can instantly re-call that feeling, the impending doom and crippling dread rising through my body and up to my throat.

Come to think of it, it's hard to remember when I let my body (or asked it to) focus on the possibility of excitement and whether or not I could let certain scenarios be wonderful.

I will be saving this to refer back to forevermore!

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This makes me think of when I used to have exams.. I had atrocious exam anxiety, so much so that I actually quit pharmacy once because I’d talked myself out of it just so I didn’t have to sit the exams 🙈

Anywho, I used to automatically assume that the questions in the exam would be everything I *didn’t* know. When we look at this rationally then we can see that there is lots of stuff that I do know - why couldn’t that be in the exam?

I automatically assumed the worst. I wonder how different my lead-up would’ve been if I could’ve told myself “you’ve got this, it’ll be ok”.

Hindsight, hey 🤓 x

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