The Mel Robbins Podcast - Take Control of Your Mindset: Master Your Mental Habits for a Happier Life
Episode Date: April 20, 2023In this episode, you’re learning a simple but powerful way to take control of your mindset. You need to get serious about your mindset. The way you think and talk to yourself has serious consequenc...es.Your thoughts become your beliefs.Your beliefs turn into actions.Your actions become habits.And your habits determine who you are and what you achieve in life, or not.That’s why you need a Mindset Reset.Imagine if your thoughts were positive, empowering, clear, and encouraging. Imagine if your beliefs inspired the best in you.If you’re tired of listening to a voice that beats you down, fills you with doubt, and argues against your goals and dreams, it’s time to change your thinking.Today, you’ll learn how to do it for yourself and start programming a more positive, empowering, and confident mindset.So pull up a seat as I coach two people through the process.I’m so confident you’re going to be fired up after listening to this episode that I have a free gift to help you take your current mindset to the next level.I have a brand new, free, 3-part training called "Take Control with Mel Robbins."It will provide you with the coaching, structure, and support you need to hit reset, take control, and level up your life.It features 3 brand-new training videos, two hours of research-backed curriculum taught by me, and a 21-page workbook. Plus you’ll be with hundreds of thousands of other students taking the course for free around the world.All at zero cost to you. Why? Because you deserve it, and it’s my way of thanking you for being here with me.You’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain. Why not take advantage of this opportunity? I’ll see you in the course!Xo Mel In this episode, you will learn: 5:00: What does your default critical soundtrack sound like in your mind?7:30: Here’s the mantra I want you to start your day with. 9:45: This is one of my easiest and favorite tools for dealing with a critical voice.16:00: This is the #1 hit playlist I want you to put on repeat. 17:30: Drop this word if you want to improve your relationship with others.22:30: Work on the most important relationship of all first.24:15: What if your critics are the voices of your boss, partner, and friends?26:25: This trauma response is very common when you live in a state of anxiety.30:15: Here’s why telling yourself that you love yourself doesn’t work for you.32:00: Yes, your boss may be a douche, but you don’t have to let that ruin you.35:00: Don’t leave today without taking away this message. Disclaimer
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Hey, it's your friend Mel Robbins and today we're talking mindset reset on the
Mel Robbins podcast. Let's go.
I'm really excited for today's show because mindset reset is one of my favorite topics.
In fact, for years, I taught a course online that I created called mindset reset all
about the science of reprogramming, the default soundtrack
in your mind. More than half a million people have taken that online course. I'm really proud of it.
And today, I'm going to bring some of the teaching right to this podcast as I coach two listeners
who are struggling with their mindset.
If you're brand new to the podcast,
I'm Mel Robbins, welcome.
I am one of the world's leading experts on behavior change,
motivation and habits.
I'm also a New York Times bestselling author.
If you've been listening to the podcast for a while,
I just wanna take a minute before we jump into
these live coaching sessions to thank you.
I always say this is our podcast.
And I mean it.
I couldn't be doing this without you, without you listening, without you sharing, without
you submitting topics, sending me videos in the DMs.
You are a critical part of the success of this podcast.
And I always envision that this would just be like, you know, taking a walk with a friend.
But you have taken this to an entirely different level.
And so from the bottom of my heart,
I wanna say thank you.
You are a force for good in people's lives around the world.
Thank you for sharing this show.
Thank you for listening.
Thank you for making our podcast,
a life changing, zero cost resource for people.
And today's gonna be no different.
Today, we're gonna do something really cool.
You're gonna listen in on two live, raw, real coaching sessions.
These are coaching sessions with listeners
just like you who are struggling
with the critical voice in their head.
The first coaching session is with a woman named Poppy who grew up with very, very critical
parents.
And what's happened is since her parents were so critical when she was little, she is now
incredibly critical of herself and she's sick of it.
She wants to evict that jerk in her head.
Then we're going to move on to a second listener
who is realizing by listening to this podcast
that she has been surrounded by narcissists
her entire life.
And they have beaten her up to a point
where she believes everything is her fault.
And we're gonna talk about the steps she needs to take
in order to evict that jerk in her head
and program in a positive new soundtrack,
one that is all her own, that is empowering.
So that's what we're doing today.
I invite you to pull up a seat.
You are going to laugh.
You're going to feel seen.
You're going to feel empowered.
You're going to leave with tactical tools and a step-by-step process for giving yourself
a mindset reset. So let's get into it with our first coaching session
with Poppy who wrote to me asking for advice on how to change her mindset and get her parents'
critical voices out of her head once and for all. Hi Poppy. Hi Mel. How can I help you? So, how does one turn out that voice that's been programmed into our head, telling us that
our needs, our emotions don't matter and we must cater to theirs.
How do you turn that off?
Okay, it's an excellent question.
And you don't turn it off.
You have to lay a new soundtrack.
If you think about the default mindset, almost like a playlist that runs in the background,
that it's almost hard to make it go silent, it's much easier to put a new playlist in there.
And so there are two tricks I'm going to give you.
Well, before I get into the tricks,
I just want to acknowledge something.
Great job recognizing that the default thinking doesn't
serve you in your life now.
So the fact that you recognize, wow,
I have this way of thinking
that I don't want in my life
and I'm gonna do something about it.
So that's enormous and it's amazing.
Can you tell me,
what does this default soundtrack sound like?
What does it say to you? So it says that you know whenever I put myself first
and don't put you know other people first, I'm selfish or if I want to do something for myself
it's never going to succeed. Did somebody tell you that? Yes, my parents. Okay.
All right, so thank you for admitting that. And the reason why your parents told you that is
because their parents probably told them that. And so they probably thought that they were protecting you.
And instead, they sentenced you to a way of thinking
that makes you feel terrible.
And so when you can recognize who the programming comes from,
it also helps because then you can separate yourself
from that voice because it's not your voice,
it's your parents voice.
And you have a chance to break this chain.
You have the chance to be the one
that this playlist dies with.
You have the chance to create a whole new way of thinking
and talking to yourself, and that's incredible.
The first thing that you said is that you have a belief
because somebody programmed this into your mind
that runs on default, that putting yourself first is selfish.
Correct?
How does that impact your life?
I get burnt out basically.
If you could program a different belief,
what would the belief be?
That, you know, um, yeah, um, what that basically, it's okay for me to take care of myself.
It's okay for me to have emotions. It's okay for me to just be me. Yeah. Oh, I love this.
Your whole life's about to change because not only is it okay, I deserve to feel how I feel. The main mantra I want
you to have is I deserve to be happy. Does this make me happy? I deserve to feel happy. Does this
make me happy? What would change in your life if you started to tell yourself over and over every single morning when you start your day?
I deserve to be happy today. What would change if you believed that happiness was something you deserved?
Wow.
I think that my day today would be a lot better, basically. I would actually, you know, get to cross off all the lists that I put down on my to-do list.
I would have some confidence.
I would be able to go out and have a great day with friends.
I noticed that I hold myself back a lot because of what's been programmed in my head.
And I'm done with that, you know?
Well, I'm glad you recognize it.
That's a huge step.
Most of us sleepwalk through life
and don't even realize that we have been trained
as little kids to make everybody around us happy
and that it's your job to make people happy.
It's your job to keep people satisfied.
It's your job to make sure nobody's disappointed with you.
And part of the problem is, is that underneath what your story is, which is it's selfish to put
myself first, you have an uglier story. And the uglier story, which I recognize, because I
have this one too, is people will be mad at me if I put myself first. There will be consequences if I do with it's good for me.
And so that's what you're really wrestling with,
is that you've connected, taking care of yourself
with somebody pulling their love away.
Yes.
And that's why you're scared to put yourself first This goes way deeper and so you're doing fan
Tastic on behalf of all of us by
Recognizing that your own thinking is holding yourself back and I can I can tell you're just sick of it
And so here's what you have to start to do
Number one, I want you to name the voice
Name it?
Yeah, give it a name.
Sally Sue, Jocco, Raul, Michael.
We gotta name this thing.
Oh boy.
Vicki, I guess.
Vicki, okay.
So when this default programming comes up,
you're going to talk back to Vicki, okay?
Okay.
And literally, you can even physically,
when you feel yourself holding yourself back,
that's the signal that this is default programming. You're
going to turn toward Vicky. Let me like literally I want you to like turn your body and you're
going to look as if Vicky's there and you're going to be like, shut up Vicky. Right.
Now I want to hear you do it.
Shut up Vicky. Yeah, but if you don't make your boss happy,
nobody's going to love you.
Tell her, shut up.
Shut up.
If you don't do exactly what your parents want,
they're going gonna be disappointed.
Shut up. Say it louder. I don't believe you.
Shut up. Say her name.
Shut up, Vicki.
You don't want to believe this shit, Vicki's saying, right?
Nope. What do you want to believe?
And myself. Yeah. Your parents want you to be happy. They don't know how to make you happy. So they're just telling you what their parents told them.
I'm not saying it's right. I'm just saying this is what people do.
You are now an adult. You're not to blame for the crap, the molarky, the garbage, the gunk, the generational trauma shit that your parents put in your brain.
You're responsible now that you're an adult for reprogramming this.
And so whenever your mind tells you something that you don't want to think,
shut up, Vicki.
I believe that if I'm happy, my parents are going to think they won the lottery.
I don't believe that. I believe that if I put myself first,
I'm going to do better work.
Shob, Vicki.
What the hell?
You're not paying my rent.
Shut up, Vicki.
You're not going to the party.
I'm not taking you with you.
There's no plus one on this invitation.
Shut up, Vicki.
By distancing yourself and talking back to it,
it loses its power over you.
And what also starts to happen is the filter in your brain, the RIS, it's now noticing,
oh, you actually care about empowering yourself.
And you're going to see more and more reasons to put yourself first.
But it really does start with, you got to delete that song.
Shut up, Vicky, shut up, Vicky, shut up, Vicky, on the playlist in your mind from the past.
And you've got to insert the new programming you want to run on default, which is I deserve
to be happy.
My parents are proud of me for being me.
Nobody's disappointed in me.
And if they are, I'm an adult, I can freaking handle it.
And I got to start taking care of myself
because I deserve that. Those are your beliefs, period. And
whenever you start to feel like here you go, hold on
yourself back. Shut up, Vicki.
Shut up, Vicki. And you'll notice the more you do this and
you take ownership for programming your mind, the less Vicky's gonna show up.
Okay. I mean it. Right. I really mean it. If you believed in yourself, what's one change you
would make that would improve your life? I would be less intense, I would say. Why are you intense?
I would be less intense, I would say. Why are you intense?
Because, well, just a little story where you're like,
I'm an immigrant and so are my parents.
And they are very tough on me.
They're very toxic because of culture
and they feel the need to raise me a certain way.
But in terms of, you know, living in America,
what they're doing to me, it's very toxic and abusive.
So I'm just like, always living on the edge, basically.
Yeah.
And if I could just, you know, embrace myself,
I think it would be a more relaxed person.
Yes.
So are you open to some coaching?
Yes.
Great.
Let's do that when we come back.
Welcome back.
I'm Mel Robbins and today on the podcast, I'm teaching you and two listeners how to give
yourself a mindset reset, which you now know is the process where you intentionally identify
the negative soundtrack from your past that's been playing in your head since childhood,
and making a decision to overwrite it with a positive new soundtrack for your adult life.
Why? Because you deserve this. You need to have a positive soundtrack because your thoughts,
when you repeat them, they become your beliefs and your beliefs, they become your actions and your
actions turn into your habits and your habits define who you are. And that's why it's
critical to change your thoughts because of what they ultimately trigger. Now Poppy, who you've
been listening to, has a very harsh critical soundtrack that's been playing in her mind from her
tough immigrant parents and it's been wearing her down since she was a little girl.
Now that she's an adult, it's her job
to delete that old toxic soundtrack,
get rid of that critical voice,
and lay down a new soundtrack,
something that she wants to listen to,
something that empowers her.
Because when you change your thoughts,
you start to change everything.
And Poppy, when you do that, you're going to relax.
And the reason why you feel so intense and so stressed and so on edge is because your
parents and your childhood, it trained you to believe that at any moment something could
go wrong. And that's your lived experience.
That is real.
That happened.
And that is what happened during your childhood.
And it will also help you if you can lose the word toxic.
I can less your parents are abusing you and I don't know that they
are or they're not. But if you lose the word toxic and you amplify a little compassion
and you say, hmm, I'm not saying what my parents are doing is right. I'm not saying that they
didn't cause issues for me emotionally and mentally
and psychologically, but they did the best that they could. And I bet it was kind of hard
to immigrate here. And I bet it was really hard for them. And I bet the stakes did feel
high. And they felt like outsiders. And they felt like they couldn't mess up. And I bet
they took all of that stress
that was their lived experience
and out of fear and love they aimed at you.
Right.
And the reason why I want you to drop the word toxic
is because I see this word thrown all over the internet.
And it's a very divisive word, particularly
if you want to improve your relationship with
the people who are engaged in behavior that feels toxic.
And so I think your parents probably did the best they could with their experiences in
life and with the situation that they were in, and that if they
truly understood what it was like for you as a child, they'd be mortified and
horrified and they'd feel terrible. Is that a fair assessment?
I guess for some parts. Okay, so I don't want to have you have to go in through your whole family history,
but if there's abuse and that kind of stuff, then yeah, that is toxic.
And you do need boundaries, and you'll figure that out with your therapist.
But when it comes to not adding more pressure on yourself,
adding a little compassion so that it doesn't feel so personal and accepting the fact that this was a form of like emotional abuse for you that stressed you the hell out you have this the dynamic with your parents. And the way that
you change the dynamics but with your parents is by taking responsibility for how you show
up for yourself. There's always kind of two people in a relationship. When you change the
energy that you bring into that relationship is going to change. And they're going to have no
choice but to change in reaction to it
That's how this creates a major ripple effect
Because it is held you hostage for far too long and you have the chance to not only heal yourself
But to heal this pattern that's been passed down through your family
Yeah, what are you thinking?
So far right now, we're not really on speaking terms.
Yes, they have abused me physically, emotionally, mentally.
It's bad.
Yeah.
Okay.
And you said in your note to me when you reached out that you are currently seeking professional
help. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Since you're not on speaking terms and you're seeking therapeutic health, let's
first say this, I am proud of you for getting the help that you need. And I am proud of you for drawing boundaries that put you first. And
drawing boundaries that put you first is an example of you believing that you're worthy
and that you deserve to be happy. And that's amazing, absolutely amazing. And when you continue to start to evict
the bully that's in your head
by naming that bully and talking back to that bully,
you will start to hear
and reclaim the most powerful voice on the planet,
your own.
Period.
And you don't need to worry about your parents. The time will come if
it ever comes when you will feel strong enough, confident enough, secure enough, and safe
enough to reconnect with them if that's what you choose to do.
And if you choose to never do that, that's okay too,
because you deserve to be happy.
You do.
Okay.
What did you get from this conversation?
What did you get from this conversation? Who, basically, to have more compassion for others as well as myself?
Yes.
Because part of learning to accept yourself is being compassionate.
Compassion for self is super important. You don't have to excuse what
somebody did. But when you seek to kind of understand what was going on, both for yourself,
for other people, when you bring compassion to it, that's where you open the door to true
power for yourself and where you take control and responsibility
for what happens in your life moving forward.
You get to decide what happens next.
And when you start to change the way that you speak to yourself, again, your whole mindset
is going to change.
And that will be what empowers you to create a new relationship.
But that's what you decide to do in the future.
But what you're doing right now is you're actually working
on the most important relationship on the planet.
That's the one you have with yourself.
Right.
Awesome.
Thank you so much, Mel.
I'm really proud of you.
Thank you.
And thank you for telling me what you told me
because you actually sang, wait a minute, I can hear what you're saying, but there was physical
abuser, Mel. That's you putting yourself first. That's another example of how strong you
are. Thank you. You're welcome. I love you, Mel. I love you too. You're awesome, Poppy.
And next up, you're going to hear from a fellow podcast listener who's been impacted
by the negativity of narcissism.
And she's sick of it.
And we're going to talk about what steps she can take and what steps you can take to
when we come back.
I'm Mel Robbins.
Today, you and I are talking about a mindset reset, which is when you identify the negative
default programming that's been in your mind since childhood.
You know, that critical voice, constantly chirping away in the background.
You never get enough. Oh, you didn away in the background. You never get enough.
Oh, you didn't get that right.
You look fat today.
Once you identify that negative default programming, you can erase that bully.
You can evict that bully.
And more importantly, you can program a new positive mindset soundtrack voice in its
place.
Well, Diane wrote in because she's realizing
that she's been surrounded by narcissists her entire life
and they've beaten her up to a point
where she believes everything is her fault.
And even though her narcissistic ex-husband
is in the rear view mirror, his voice is still in her head.
Hi, Diane.
Hi, my question comes more of what about when this kind of programming and voices are from spouses, friends, employers, you know,
and they're just basically building on what your parents or other people have said.
Great question.
building on what your parents or other people have said. Great question.
So the question is, what if you've got programming from childhood
that now is basically being reinforced by colleagues, bosses,
spouses, friend group,
blobby-d blobby-d blob.
Yes.
What is the kind of default negative thing that you say to yourself?
It's definitely not good enough and who the heck do you think you are?
Ooh.
The who the heck do you think you are?
That has a real bite to it.
Yes, it does.
So I don't know why I'm going to ask you this, but I'm going to ask you this.
We're either of your parents on the narcissism personality disorder by chance, expecting.
Well, I'm pretty close, so I would say yes, one of them, for sure.
And the reason why I say that is because the who do you think you are has a very hostile nature to it. So I would
imagine, and again, I'm just guessing, just guessing here that there was a level of either
hostility or fighting or outbursts or eruptions that were very chaotic for you
when you were a little kid
happening with the adults in your house.
I've blocked out a lot.
I remember more of my adults showed there.
My ex was a nurse assistant.
I mean, you know, definitely.
Yep, okay.
So I am not surprised that you blocked a lot of childhood out because what happens
is that when you're in a situation that is extremely stressful as a young kid because
the adults around you can't be trusted or they're erratic or whatever the situation may be, you live in a state of fight or flight
and the alarm system in your body's going off.
And when you are on edge and the alarm system
and your nervous system is going off
because you don't feel safe around the adults in the house,
it impairs the cognitive functioning in your brain.
This comes from research at a UCLA, Dr. Judith Willis,
who studied extensively how nervous system,
dysregulation impacts the brain's ability to function.
And so if you're busy managing this toxic stress in your body as a kid,
your brain's not actually present to make memories.
So super normal to not have a lot of memories, by the way, I do not have a lot of memories
from my childhood, from high school, from college, from law school because I was in a constant
state of anxiety.
Never present the room to make memories there. And what I want to tell you first is the good news.
So the good news is, even though you have been the victim of being with a narcissist,
and you have had a childhood that was fraught with all kinds of stuff, you can change your brain. You can learn how to calm your nervous system,
and you can absolutely change the programming in your mind.
And I want you to relate to the programming in your mind
as if it was deliberately put there. Because even though a narcissist
or somebody with a narcissistic personality is not deliberately doing this to you,
they are so incapable of empathy. They're not even considering you and me. We're objects.
They're just doing what they're doing, but we get damaged in the way that we think about
ourselves when you're around somebody like that.
Because you think you're the problem.
You think that if there was something different about you, that everything would be okay.
And lots of people with a narcissistic personality issue, they actually tell you that you're the
problem. And so this was a deliberate programming in your mind at the hands of
other adults. Now, the good news is you're an adult and you can take deliberate steps to reprogram your
mind. And I'm going straight for like boom in the face on this because I want you to realize that you
got to get deliberate about this, that somebody else trained you to think this way.
And it is a level of being deliberate.
As if I said, you're going to move to Russia and you got to speak fluent Russian.
I realize you've spoken how old
you? 60 phones. You've spoken English for 65 years. But for the rest of your life, we're
going to speak Russian. We're going to speak Swahili. We're going to speak a different
language. And you can learn a different language. And learning to shut off the abusive voice in your head
and teaching yourself through thought substitution. A different language is what you're going to have to do.
going to have to do. So that's number one. Number two, you're not going to overnight be able to look in your like a loveless of it doesn't work that way because you've had a lifetime of people
telling you otherwise. And your brain will reject any mantra that you choose that you have actively tried to disprove. And so we got to pick something for you that
you believe in the truth of it. And what I believe that everybody deserves, I think you
can say I deserve to be happy or I'm a good person who's trying her best? And I deserve to be happy.
I'm a kind person who deserves respect.
I am doing the best I can, and that's good enough.
Like there are these mantras that kick the narcissist.
You're not good enough.
Who do you think you are thing out of your head?
And you can say something back that's like, hey, I'm a kind person doing
the best I can. And that's good enough. And that is enough of a rebuke. And it's believable enough,
even when you're beaten down, that as you repeat it and repeat it and repeat it and repeat it to
yourself, because you're going to have to. You will start to, believe it.
And one final thing that I wanted to say to you is that, you know how you said that the
program started with my parents and then it was an ex and then it was colleagues and then
it was a boss, that may be true.
But we've also got to start to do the work of catching the filter in your brain. So yes, your boss may be an
erratic douche who calls out the things that are negative or is always in a grouchy mood.
But that doesn't mean anything about you. This is where your filter and the programming in your mind scans the world and reads your
boss's crappy mood as having to do with you.
Because the narcissist in your life made you feel like everything was your fault.
For all you know, your boss's wife is having an affair.
He's going through a tumultuous divorce.
He's dealing with irritable bowel syndrome, which is why he's always grouchy and he's a really sad,
sad guy who can't get his shit together because he has childhood trauma.
None of what he has to do with you.
But your programming in your mind makes you think everything's your fault.
And that's also the part of the work that you're going to need to do.
You've got to reprogram the words you say, hey, I'm a kind person, I'm doing the best I can,
that's good enough.
Or I deserve to be happy, especially after these assholes that were in my life.
You can put a little sauce in there, like, you know, you can tell I like a little spicy
mantra, like something that, you know, because if you don't quite believe it, if it doesn't
loosen you up a little bit, that's not the right thing to say.
Because most mantras are bullshit because people pick things like,
I love myself. And then they spend the day going, you look like shit.
You don't screw that. Like, no, you don't love yourself. I need to get myself a break.
I'm doing the best I can. Now, there's a mantra I can get behind.
Because I believe that. And so pick something believable, put a little ad, you're fun into it, because it shakes the mood
down a little bit. And then go to work on this filter that you have of making everything is your
fault because it's freaking not. Your stupid parents and your dumb ex-husband, all of whom were
mentally challenged with narcissistic personalities, made you think that horse shit.
You're not to blame for that, but you have a responsibility
to change the way you talk to yourself
and to basically go, not everything's about me.
Thank God.
I love that you're laughing now.
You seem like a little bit.
What did you get out of this?
I love the one thing, it's not everything's about me.
Period, it's not mine, not always, not a little bit, you know, and really retraining the brain,
really working through catching those filters.
You know, and it's going to have to be one step at a time.
That's it.
And here's the, give yourself a fucking break.
Seriously.
Give yourself a break. I have a little bit of compassion. Wow.
I got out of a marriage with a raging narcissist. I'm pretty awesome. Yes, I am. Yes, you are.
Yes, I am. Give yourself more credit. Let me hear you say your new mantra. Quit taking my stuff so seriously I'm not getting out of this thing alive.
That's true. This ends the same. And how about adding, I might as well enjoy the rest of
the ride. There we go. I may as well enjoy the rest of the ride.
The first 65 kicked my ass. So let's have some fun. The next 65. And they did. Oh my
Lord. Yeah, but you're here laughing about it. That's more than most can say.
And so I do believe the best days of your life are on the road ahead.
I believe that.
Thank you. I'm believing it too.
I'm getting there.
Awesome. Well, you know I'm here.
I'll be kicking your ass forward the whole way.
Good.
Let's go. All right. Go get him.
If you were listening to that and you felt it deep in your body somewhere, I want you
to know that when you have the revelation that the voice that you've listened to for years, the voice that's
held you back, that made you feel like shit, that it's actually not even yours, that can
make your heart sees for a minute.
It's kind of one of those like, wait, wait, what?
And then when I add on top of it, that you're not to blame for the crap that somebody programmed
into your head.
You were just a little person with three pounds of macaroni that was trying to absorb
everything around it.
And our brains love patterns.
And it picks up on patterns of speaking.
And that's what your brain did.
And so if you're having this revelation, holy shit,
I've thought that everything's my fault for my entire life
because somebody made me believe it was
and then I held onto that belief.
Don't freak out.
This is great news because so many people
spend their entire lives not even realizing
that it's possible to change the way you think.
It is possible to put a new playlist in your mind.
It is possible to filter the world completely differently
and to make your brain work for you.
Now, are you gonna have positive thoughts all day long?
No.
Are you gonna be like, you know,
a thousand percent confident?
No.
But can you stop torturing yourself? Yes.
Can you start encouraging yourself?
You better believe you can.
Can you separate what your narcissistic piece of shit expos said to you
from what you actually believe about yourself?
That you want to believe about yourself, that you wanna believe about yourself?
Yeah, you can.
Can you do it overnight?
No, you're gonna have to work at this,
just like the people in your past worked over time
at saying things to you that beat you down.
This stuff takes hold over time,
but the good news is your brain is super responsive.
And when you combine what you're learning about resetting your mind with healing your
nervous system and the science of making and sticking to new habits, all of which you
are absolutely smart enough and capable enough
to apply to your life because your friend Mel Robbins, I am not going to make this scientific.
I'm going to give you the science so that you know this stuff works and you can count
on it and trust it, but I make this stuff so dead simple that literally your kids and
I can do it.
And so you can do everything that you are learning
on the Melrose podcast.
You can change your mind.
You can kick the bully out of your head.
You can program in new thoughts.
You can actively work to change the reticular activity system
in your brain, that network of neurons
that filters the world.
You can take better care of your brain
and taking care of your physical
brain will also help the thoughts in your mind. You can develop new healthy habits and you
can do this. You can make it easier and you can heal your nervous system, which is the
trifecta of transformation. We hit the habits, the mindset, and the nervous system. Holy shit, you're
like the terminator of transformation. You could do anything. I believe that. I just have
way too much evidence. And if you're cynical about that, take a look at who taught you
to be cynical. Just because life hasn't worked out for you the way that you wanted to up until this point,
who fucking says it's not going to work out for you and the best days aren't ahead?
I'll tell you who says you do.
You decide whether or not you're going to continue to let all this crap you're not responsible
for to hold you back or you're going to take responsibility for what happens next.
Heal your nervous system.
Change your mind.
You can do that and you don't have to spend a dollar to do it.
Make new habits.
Habits that actually help you get what you want, what you deserve.
You can do that and you do not have to spend money to do it.
And one more thing.
You can go beyond just listening and you can not have to spend money to do it. And one more thing, you can go beyond just listening
and you can truly start doing.
And I wanna help.
I've created a brand new free training program
called Take Control with Mel Robbins.
I do this every single spring as a gift
to all of my followers around the world
and the folks on our newsletter list
and to now you are beloved
podcast family.
This is a three part free video training and you can access it from MelRobins.com slash
take control or there's a link right in the show notes.
It has a very detailed and amazing workbook that our team put together and in the free
training, I'm gonna hold your hand
and I'm going to be your teacher
and I'm going to walk you through exercises
that are backed by science that will help you take
everything you just learned in these coaching sessions
and apply it to your own life to that voice in your head
and to the changes that you wanna make.
That's what we're gonna do in part one.
In part two, oh my gosh, I'm going to share you the coolest thing because I brought all these
amazing visual examples that will help you see how you process and think. And once you understand
whether you're what I call a box stepper or a box jumper. You're now going to have the self awareness to know how to
identify what habits and what changes you could make in order to support you taking control. And
then finally, training number three, it just brings it all home. And it helps you get super inspired
and ready for action. So how do you get you this free training?
Just go to melrobbins.com slash take control.
You can also go to the show notes.
We're absolutely every resource that we mention
in these coaching sessions in today's episode are,
and I do this because I believe in you,
and I know change is hard.
But if you are jumping in with me as your coach
and a quarter of a million people around the world who are also part of this amazing brand new training program that we've just launched,
you're more likely to make it stick. And I so want that for you.
That's why I'm here. I'm here to help you do these things. I'm here because I know it's possible. I'm here because I'm trying to save you the headache
of living with these negative thoughts as I have for 40 plus years. I'm trying to save you
just the discomfort and the agitation and the horrible feeling of living with a
dysregulated nervous system as I have done for over 45 years. And I am absolutely right here beside you,
trying to make some new habits,
using this simple science.
And so we got each other's back in this one,
but I want you to know change is possible.
It's not only possible, you will make it happen.
You just have to start to do the work.
All right, I love you. I believe in you and your ability to take all these coaching sessions
and apply them to your life right now. And I can't wait to hear what you got out of this episode.
Talk to you in a few days. Oh, one more thing.
It's the legal language.
This podcast is presented solely for educational and
entertainment purposes. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician,
professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional.
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