There’s a voice in your head that talks all day long. Everybody has one. Sometimes it’s kind. A lot of the time it’s harsh—you’re not good enough, you messed that up, everyone’s better than you.
Here’s the secret almost nobody tells you: that voice is not you. It’s just thoughts. Thoughts you picked up from movies, from other people, from hard things you went through. They run on repeat until they start to feel like facts.
They’re not facts. You can hear a thought and choose not to believe it. You can notice it, shrug, and let it float on by.