Hey friends, it's Rosie.
Welcome back to Radio Headspace.
The other day I was flying through my inbox.
You know that feeling when you're on a roll knocking things out,
feeling very efficient, borderline unstoppable.
And then, boom, it happened.
I sent the wrong email to the wrong person.
Nothing catastrophic, not career-ending.
Just one of those mix-up where the minute you hit send,
you realized, oh no, that wasn't meant for them.
And before I even had the time to breathe,
I heard myself say out loud, idiot, in my best Napoleon Dynamite voice.
It stopped me in my tracks.
Not the mistake.
The words.
The way they rolled out of my mouth so naturally, like it was the most obvious truth in the world.
And I thought, wait, did I just call myself an idiot out loud?
Look, we all have those moments.
A slip up, a stumble, a minor fail, and suddenly the harshest voice in the room is our own.
The technical term for this is negative self-talk.