Rewrite Your Story {podcast episode}
Can you rewrite your life’s story and shape your own destiny?
Actually, you can! That’s what I’m sharing on today’s episode.
Listen here:
I am so grateful for all of you who reached out about my health after hearing the first episode of this show. I am well and currently considered cancer-free. For that I am grateful. My journey continues both with medication, and with reconstruction. It’s my new normal and sometimes things don’t go as planned, but overall, I am in a very good place.
Today I want to talk about the power of our words.
We can choose to describe our situation any way we want. It’s literally your choice. I’m not advocating lying to yourself or anyone else. I am encouraging you to write your story. You are not just the actor; you are also the creator of your experience.
Every day we face challenges both tiny and significant. One of the biggest ways I got through my diagnosis and surgeries and associated treatments was by choosing the words around the story I told myself and others.
How many times have you heard (or said) “I’m so stupid” or “I’ll never be able to . . . “ The way we talk to ourselves and to others matters. For better or worse, we internalize those messages over and over again.
Hear how this worked for my husband and I when we bought our dream home and had to sell our townhome. Shifting how I talked about this changed everything for us. The same thing happened when I was faced with an unexpected bill for my chemotherapy. My energy and language around this made things better at a very difficult time.
How can you choose different words to describe your situation to yourself? The words you use when you talk to yourself have so much more power than we realize. I encourage you to use words that empower you. Rewrite your story with words that bring you hope, courage and power.
What words will you choose?
