Oh, the stories we spin—faster than Netflix, and far more damaging. My brain’s a rogue screenwriter with no editor, scribbling melodramas on the back of every passing glance and delayed text. The tragedy? I keep casting myself in the role of “The Problem.” But as Virgin Monk Boy once scribbled on a bathroom wall: “Not every silence is rejection, not every delay is doom, and not every passing car is your dad leaving again.”
Time to fire the inner playwright and hire a stillness coach.
Very wise. I know I do it. Usually reinforcing bad ideas about myself. I've been reading this book, "You Are Not Your Brain" by Jeffrey Schwartz and it talks about challenging and reframing the hurtful stories you tell yourself. Illuminating to me, like your post.
Oh, the stories we spin—faster than Netflix, and far more damaging. My brain’s a rogue screenwriter with no editor, scribbling melodramas on the back of every passing glance and delayed text. The tragedy? I keep casting myself in the role of “The Problem.” But as Virgin Monk Boy once scribbled on a bathroom wall: “Not every silence is rejection, not every delay is doom, and not every passing car is your dad leaving again.”
Time to fire the inner playwright and hire a stillness coach.
Truth!!!
Very wise. I know I do it. Usually reinforcing bad ideas about myself. I've been reading this book, "You Are Not Your Brain" by Jeffrey Schwartz and it talks about challenging and reframing the hurtful stories you tell yourself. Illuminating to me, like your post.