I think often about my first book, LINGO. While I focused on the energy of words in marketing, I believe of the words we say to ourselves are equally if not more powerful. One changes the other.
I am gobsmacked by the beauty and the meaning-making and the generosity of this post. If commented on every gift here, I’d be writing a comment longer than the post itself. Here’s one that illuminated, as you explained the import of your response to stuttering. “…and those weren’t just articulation challenges. They were identity challenges.”
And thank you for your glossary of alternatives expressions for challenges. It was deeply thoughtful.
I’ll be thinking about all this post offered far into the future.
That line about identity challenges… it still gets me too. It felt like a deep exhale to name it out loud, and to have it witnessed like this? That’s a gift I won’t forget.
And I’m so glad the glossary landed! Rewriting the way we speak to ourselves is one of the most liberating practices I know—and it means the world that it offered something useful to you.
I think often about my first book, LINGO. While I focused on the energy of words in marketing, I believe of the words we say to ourselves are equally if not more powerful. One changes the other.
Absolutely! The words we say to ourself are the most powerful.
I spent most of this article using examples of reframing, the next step it to redefine words.
Success, profit, wealth, deserving, worthy… all very triggering words but redefining what they mean to YOU changes everything.
I am gobsmacked by the beauty and the meaning-making and the generosity of this post. If commented on every gift here, I’d be writing a comment longer than the post itself. Here’s one that illuminated, as you explained the import of your response to stuttering. “…and those weren’t just articulation challenges. They were identity challenges.”
And thank you for your glossary of alternatives expressions for challenges. It was deeply thoughtful.
I’ll be thinking about all this post offered far into the future.
That line about identity challenges… it still gets me too. It felt like a deep exhale to name it out loud, and to have it witnessed like this? That’s a gift I won’t forget.
And I’m so glad the glossary landed! Rewriting the way we speak to ourselves is one of the most liberating practices I know—and it means the world that it offered something useful to you.