Self-talk is underrated

and unfairly ignored.

Introverts thrive in solitude.

There’s nothing that can charge you up more than sitting alone in a secluded corner lost in your own world of thoughts.

It prepares you for facing reality once again and the hope of coming back helps you get through your day.

But there are times when your mind is in such agony that even solitude can’t seem to heal you.

It could be failure, rejection, betrayal, or a traumatizing experience.

This is when self-talk comes in handy but is the most overlooked means to recover by most introverts.

You can talk yourself through all that pain, getting to its root and figure out why you feel the way you feel.

By understanding your own pattern of thinking, you can find ways to let things sink in and move on for good.

In other words, you can be your own great therapist because there’s seldom anyone else you trust more than yourself, and who understands you better.

By acting like a therapist who is looking at things objectively and is otherwise not as emotionally invested in the matter, you can start looking at things in a new light.

Sometimes this new perspective might surprise you because of how it helped you see what was right in front of you, but you were too distracted to notice.

You will need to trust yourself for the first couple of times but after that, you’ll develop a muscle for this.

And being able to come out of such situations on your own is so powerful.

I have tried this many times where I talk to myself and then provide assurance that I will get you (myself) out of this.

And I almost always do.

Sometimes it may require some more patience than usual but at the end, everything works out.

Let me know how it went the next time you do so.