The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News [Unofficial]Podcast Transcript May 1, 2026— Antarctic whales by the hundreds, the UK’s generational smoking ban, and more positive news this week
Aurin (ki, ki, kis)Mental health tip that is secretly antifa in action, that I learned from @DionRa:
When you are down on yourself or have intrusive thoughts or otherwise feel like "my brain hates me", "my brain is being mean" —
This has a source outside of you. It's not a part of you that randomly decided to make your life shit for no reason. That's not how brains or psyches or emotions or humans or mental health works. If you suffer, it's because someone MAKES you suffer!
You're being oppressed, you're being exploited, you're being neglected, your rights are trampled on, you're being threatened, you might suffer systemic violence and/or interpersonal abuse. You suffer from helplessness in the face of injustice and cruelty around you.
And I know many of you know this and I know it's often overwhelming to think about. I am living that right now.
But it is important to remember as often as you can, where that comes from. To try and get specific. Who in your life is hurting you or threatening or gaslighting? Who is exposing you to oppression? Who is abusing you at home or in activist spaces?
We can't fight our own brains and "win". We can't just accept suffering either. We can only work towards more safety and more freedom and more justice by getting as specific and unflinching as we can when tracing our sufferings back to their sources.
Then fight the source. Bring the fight to them. Just being clear in your own mind changes how interactions play out! It's not easy, but it IS worth it and it gets easier with every exercise.
Sometimes you can just disengage. Unfollow, block, give monosyllabic responses if you have to. You can cut your own parents out of your life if you want to. You can find ways to get by without bosses.
Otherwise, make them at least work for it. Don't give in easily to injustices, especially the very normalised ones. Be "unreasonable" and difficult! Use the privileges you do have. Keep asking "Why?" as if you're 4 again.
Just do what you feel like. Sit or lie down or jump around for no other reason than you feel like it. Eat what catches your fancy. Eat until you feel like doing something else, even if you're already "full" (diet culture messed up your perception of your body's needs!) Sing, laugh uproariously, swear and yell. Sigh. Just stare blankly into space if that feels peaceful. Sleep more.
Connect to your body, reconnect over and over again. Be THERE for yourself, be in yourself, in your body. Connect body, mind and action.
#MentalHealth #SelfCare #MentalIllness #AbuseCulture #RapeCulture #abuse #AbuseSurvivor #RapeSurvivor #SelfCare #CommunityCare #dissociation #grounding #DomesticAbuse #brains #NegativeSelfTalk
FishercatGet Your Dopamine On
I'm one-chili neurospicy, like it says on the tin. I'm an HSP: highly-sensitive person. Which doesn't mean I'm a delicate fucking flower, except yes. Sort of.
Sustained auditory or *visual noise makes my teeth itch. I can deal with it, but the longer the exposure, the more stressful it gets. It's why I'm deeply, deeply uncomfortable cooking when the kitchen is a mess. And cooking is my art form. It's been a source of joy for most of my adult life. Being an HSP is also why I find bringing order out of chaos immensely satisfying.
As I was cleaning the kitchen this morning and thinking anxiously about dumpster fires, I wasn't getting my dopamine on. I was mentally denigrating the importance of what I was doing instead of something more active, and external.
No. Just no. Attending to my own needs, maintaining the tools of my art, reclaiming what's mine, and yours, and every person's: the right to joy, to love, to sharing nourishment of body and soul. I fucking get to do that. So do you. So. Do. You.
*eg: clashing colors, busy patterns, an untidy room, crowds
#MentalHealth #SelfCare #Neurotransmitters
#NegativeSelfTalk #Cooking #Anxiety #Joy
Hannah C. Rosenblattdie Fragen und die Antworten
„When I thought I know the answers, they changed the questions.“ Das stand auf einer Karte, die mir eine Therapeutin geschenkt hat.
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Ich dachte an diese dusslige Karte, weil mir auffiel, dass ich selbst die Fragen ändere, sobald ich Antworten habe. Und schlimmer noch: Wenn es die richtigen Antworten sind.
https://einblogvonvielen.org/die-fragen-und-die-antworten/
#Selbstsabotage #negativeSelftalk #DingeTrotzdemMachen #Blog
littlemiao 
I’m mentally preparing for my Hebrew lesson in two weeks. It has been months. It will be immediately clear that my Hebrew has gotten even worse, I will mix up elementary words, and forget everything that I do not mix up. #NegativeSelfTalk
Meera JhogasundramTHE DRAGON WITHIN: HOW NEGATIVE SELF-TALK CAN SABOTAGE YOUR CAREER
Watch my video here👇
https://youtu.be/v9e99b3g2W4
#careertransitioncoach #careerdevelopment #careerexcellence #negativeselftalk
THE DRAGON WITHIN: HOW NEGATIVE SELF-TALK CAN SABOTAGE YOUR CAREER
Fishing Without Bait PodcastFishing Without Bait 914: Understanding Hypnotherapy with Mike Oglesbee
Site https://www.fishingwithoutbait.com/episodes/fishing-without-bait-914-understanding-hypnotherapy-with-mike-oglesbee
Audio https://patreon.com/posts/101114713
Video https://patreon.com/posts/101114717
#Mindfulness #Hypnotherapy #SelfImprovement #MindsetCoaching #SelfTalk #PersonalGrowth #MentalHealth #SubconsciousMind #ConsciousEffort #SelfLove #EmotionalNeeds #NegativeSelfTalk #SelfConcept #SelfEsteem #HumanRights #Relationships #Transformation #Psychology #NeurolinguisticProgramming #FullImpactMindfulness @sorgatronmedia
Fishing Without Bait 914: Understanding Hypnotherapy with Mike Oglesbee — Fishing Without Bait - A Life Without Expectations
In this episode of "Fishing Without Bait," host Jim Ellermeyer is joined by Mike Oglesbee, a seasoned mindset coach and hypnotherapist. They delve into the transformative power of the mind and the journey to self-improvement through full impact mindfulness. Mike shares his path from curios
Adam BernardLetting Go of Negative Self-Talk
Letting go of negative self-talk is a powerful act of self-love. It takes courage and strength to acknowledge the thoughts that hold us back and choose to release them. Remember, you are deserving of kindness and compassion from yourself. By freeing yourself from negative self-talk, you are giving yourself the gift of inner peace and
https://www.adambernard.com/letting-go-of-negative-self-talk/
#Meditation #NegativeSelfTalk #PositiveAffirmations #SelfLove
Letting go of negative self-talk is a powerful act of self-love. It takes courage and strength to acknowledge the thoughts that hold us back and choose to release them. Remember, you are deserving of kindness and compassion from yourself. By freeing yourself from negative self-talk, you are giving yourself the gift of inner peace and
https://www.adambernard.com/letting-go-of-negative-self-talk/
#Meditation #NegativeSelfTalk #PositiveAffirmations #SelfLove
ThreeOfUsOne of my loudest #NegativeSelfTalk voices repeatedly says ‘Why are you so slow at everything?’, ‘Why don’t you get more done?’, ‘You’re lazy’.
This stems from high expectations and unreasonable pressure from my parents which continues to this day.
#mentalhealth #anxiety #depression
This stems from high expectations and unreasonable pressure from my parents which continues to this day.
#mentalhealth #anxiety #depression
My Neurodivergent SelfSome days are just really hard...
https://roadtomytrueself.wordpress.com/2023/01/29/inner-voices/
#AuDHD #NegativeSelfTalk #MentalHealth #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD