The Words You Use About Yourself

"I'm just a family doc."
"Oh, you can call me Megan, that's fine."
"Ugh, I'm so lazy."

We say these all day long and almost none of us hear ourselves say them.

I was at a coaching retreat recently, standing with a brilliant physician friend who had just pitched herself to speak at her state medical group's women physicians' conference. She was lit up about it. Genuinely excited. And in the middle of telling me all of it, she said, "and I'm so cheap." She didn't hear it. I did.

What she meant was that she's local, so there's no flight and no hotel, and she hadn't set a speaking fee yet. What she said was that her value is low. So I offered her a different sentence, and I watched it move through her body in real time. What happened next included her going back to her hotel room that night and sending a proposal she had not planned to send, and a text the following day that started with "you are the answer to my prayers."

This is not an episode about standing in front of a mirror repeating affirmations at yourself. I don't do that, and I'm not going to ask you to. This is about the handful of sentences you say about yourself over and over without ever once examining them, what they're quietly costing you, and choosing something that is just as true and doesn't put you in the wrong.

Here's some of what we get into together:

• Why "I'm fine" said through gritted teeth eventually stops being a word that means fine, and what that leaves you with when someone who loves you asks
• What happened to the word "wellness" over the last ten years, and why so many of us can't hear it now without flinching
• The one sentence I offered my friend, and what it actually did (it did not write her talk)
• The swap I'd start with this week, and why "sorry" is more expensive than it looks

Pick one phrase. That's the whole assignment.

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Website: healthierforgood.com
Email: megan@healthierforgood.com