How to Stop Believing the Stories in Your Head
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Are your thoughts constantly spiraling, making you doubt yourself, others, or situations? In this episode, Tara Renze explores how to stop believing the stories in your head using reality testing.
Our brains are wired to fill in the blanks—and too often, we fill them with fear, insecurity, and worst-case scenarios. Reality testing is a key emotional intelligence skill that helps us challenge those narratives and see things for what they actually are… not just what we think they are.
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Chapters
1. Intro (00:00:00)
2. What is reality testing (00:03:18)
3. Reality testing helps with: (00:05:45)
4. Optimism (00:09:23)
5. Reality testing role-play (00:11:20)
6. Admiration (00:14:42)
7. Reality testing in parenting (00:15:45)
8. 4 steps to practice reality testing with optimism (00:16:46)
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