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10 Negative Conversations Survivors of Childhood Trauma Have with Themselves

Negative self-talk is having limiting inner dialogue with oneself.

Shirley J. Davis
7 min readJun 12, 2020
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This kind of self-conversation can not only limit one’s ability to believe in oneself, but it can also keep you from reaching their full potential. Negative self-talk is thoughts that make it difficult to make positive changes or to build confidence in oneself.

This article will focus on 10 negative inner conversations survivors have, the four types of negative self-talk, and methods to defeat it.

The 10 Negative Self-Conversations

Like all ideas and many impressions, negative self-talk begins in the way we speak to ourselves. If we speak positive affirmations into our lives, then we will believe in ourselves. Unfortunately, the opposite is also true.

Below is a list of 10 negative self-conversations that survivors often find themselves engulfed in. With these negative thoughts, you will also find ideas on how to combat the negative self-messages.

1. “I am not worthy of self-care, there are others more deserving than me.”

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Shirley J. Davis
Shirley J. Davis

Written by Shirley J. Davis

I am an author/speaker/grant writer in the U.S. My passion is authoring information about mental health disorders, especially dissociative identity disorder..

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