It's easy to get caught up in cycle of negative self talk as a parent. To make a mistake — or perceive something as a mistake even though it isn't — and then say to yourself "I'm a bad a parent." In his new book Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking, Jon Acuff outlines this negativity cycle and plainly lays out the issue and provides a smart framework to help people regain control of their internal dialogues for the better. The concept: identify broken soundtracks, replace them with new ones that are tethered to an action, and then repeat the fresh ones so often that they become automatic. And you know what? It works.
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