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Transforming Negative Self-Talk: Why You’re Not Broken — You’re Protecting Yourself

  • Writer: Kathryn Knaggs
    Kathryn Knaggs
  • 2 hours ago
  • 1 min read

Negative self-talk is often framed as a mindset problem.


Think positive. Reframe it. Be grateful.


But for exhausted, burnt-out souls who feel unseen, that advice can feel like another failure.


Because the truth is — negative self-talk isn’t random.


It’s a learned survival strategy.


Your subconscious mind’s job is to keep you safe, not happy. And if criticism once helped you avoid rejection, failure, or conflict, your nervous system kept the pattern running long after the danger passed.


Neuroscience tells us the brain responds to internal dialogue as if it were external experience. That means constant self-criticism keeps your body in a low-grade stress response — impacting sleep, digestion, immunity, confidence, and decision-making.


This is why you can’t logic your way out of it.


Transformation happens when safety is restored first.


Through NLP, hypnosis, and nervous-system-informed work, we don’t fight the inner voice — we retrain it. We teach your subconscious that you’re no longer under threat, that rest is allowed, and that self-trust is safe.


As the inner dialogue softens, something powerful happens: You stop seeking validation. You stop abandoning yourself. You start making choices from clarity instead of fear.


This is the beginning of becoming Unshakable.


✨ If you’re ready to change the relationship you have with yourself at the deepest level, working together will gently and permanently shift this pattern.


 
 
 

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