What is self-talk?: The Reflection Exercise

**I got this exercise from the folks at Green Mountain at Fox Run. I’ve changed it a little bit but the core ideas remain. Thus, they should get the credit!!   Self talk is a difficult thing to understand mostly because it tends to happen below the level of conscious awareness.  I’d like to present an exercise that, in theory, …

Why we stay stuck: Part 3

We’ve been reviewing the basic literature surrounding why people “stay stuck.” There is more information than ever out there now, but we’re organizing it into several different levels. Having explored the biology that affects our ability to change, we’ll now move on to the cognitive level. The cognitive level of a person is the way a person interprets inputs, sensory …