You know what’s worse than neg­a­tive thinking?

Beating your­self up for neg­a­tive thinking.

It’s actu­ally pretty com­i­cal, when you think about it, to deal with neg­a­tive think­ing by think­ing neg­a­tively about your neg­a­tive think­ing. Read more

This past Wednesday was, um, interesting.

As I moved through the events of the day (includ­ing los­ing my wal­let and tak­ing a nasty spill off my front porch) I found myself swing­ing back and forth from view­ing the events as a tragedy to view­ing them as a com­edy. In the tragedy ver­sion, I was cursed. My life was ter­ri­ble and unfair. There was a lot of cry­ing and feel­ing sorry for myself and seek­ing pity. Read more

Last sum­mer, I made a list of 25 things I wanted. It wasn’t a tra­di­tional list of goals. It was a list that came from my heart and soul, with no restric­tions. This was a list of dreams and desires. Here are a few items I included: Read more

Melissa Anderson is one of the coolest peo­ple I know. She is a sci­en­tist, a marathon run­ner, a deep thinker, and totally freakin’ hilar­i­ous. I am thrilled to have devel­oped a friend­ship with her and very excited to share a piece she has writ­ten about her own expe­ri­ences with neg­a­tive thoughts. Enjoy!

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If you haven’t been fol­low­ing this three-part series on han­dling unhelp­ful thoughts, you may want to begin by check­ing out my two pre­vi­ous posts on this subject:

Step 1:  Watch your thoughts

Step 2: Question your thoughts

Today, I am shar­ing step 3, which is to recre­ate your thoughts.

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One of my favorite affir­ma­tions is, “I am whole.”  I find that I have to remind myself of this quite often.  Why is it that so many of us have a deep-set belief that some­thing is ter­ri­bly wrong with us?  That we are broken?

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