This is earthing time. No cell phone. No reading. Be still. Give your nervous system a chance to relax, however many minutes that takes. Everything else can wait. You are connecting right now with the earth, with your self.

Yes, we are truly worthy of respect for the endurance that we have shown. We have done our best. We have been very capable. We can salute ourselves for that. Big pat on the back. Well done you! Now carry on. Chop wood. Carry water. Do what needs doing. And do it with Love.

What would it look like to be your own loyal friend? Can you imagine the comfort, the relief, the support, and the sense of being loved that you would get by being in the presence of such a being?

This is where trust comes in. To trust that when the moment is right, what you need to see will be illuminated. You will know the direction or the next step.

When my self talk is filled with criticism, recriminations, regrets and put downs that go on and on, I turn to these tried-and-true techniques to get a break from the inner critic.

You, my friend, deserve to be spoken to like someone who matters. You can start right now with kind and gentle self talk. No matter who you are, or what you have done or that's been done to you, compassion is your birthright.

You might as well give some of the love, time and focus you are so good at giving others to yourself. Why not give it a go and see what happens. When you love all of you, even the yucky parts, that’s when self love has a chance to bloom.

It’s not a luxury to have joy and delight in our self talk. In fact, it’s a necessity. And the harder the world is, the more we need it.

I step up and put myself in charge of my self talk like the quality of my life depends on it – because it does.

Finding yourself is like finding an awesome new friend. You are truly the one you have been looking for all this time. A hole deep inside can only be filled by one person, and that’s you.

When you are on your own side, when you stand by yourself with compassion and kindness even when you make mistakes or fail, your power increases because you are not divided against yourself. You are whole and that is a very empowered way to be.

Keep going, wonderful one. You are more powerful than you know. You are more resilient than you know. You can keep going caring for yourself and your loved ones. You can keep going making this world a more just, caring and compassionate place

It takes some courage to take the risk to blossom as Anais wrote. But it is way more risky to stay tight, enclosed in yourself, living a life that doesn’t feel right. The process of embodying your own true voice starts inside with self talk

My self talk was negative and critical and I realized I needed a self talk reset. I needed to reset my energy and my self talk. I needed to stop this frazzled feeling and step back into a calm power.

My intense intention right now is to be as healthy as I can be, as loving as I can be, as truthful as I can be. It is also to take care of myself, my family, my community, and my world in ways that honor who I am as a highly sensitive person.

Movement unblocks an energy within us and permits a softer kinder inner voice to emerge. This kind voice is always within, but who can hear it under the thunder of an inner critic gone wild. Movement calms the nervous system as well, which in turn calms negative self-talk.

What you say inside radiates out into the world. Our self talk is mighty powerful to transform our lives for the better, and transform our world for the better.

What you say inside radiates out into the world. We can use our self-talk to create the world we want to see.

So goodbye old, irrelevant story. I’m decluttering you. I’m thanking you for your service, and letting you go so that I can replace you