How do we and how should we talk to ourselves?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is an article by Carmine Gallo at Inc. on March 22, 2025 titled How to Turn Public Speaking-Anxiety Into Confidence and subtitled Change your relationship with public speaking by embracing time travel and positive self-talk. And he refers to a 2025 book by Ethan Kross titled Shift: Managing Your Emotions – So They Don’t Manage You.

 

Another article by Lauren Parsons in Toastmaster Magazine on December 2024 (pages 17 to 19) is titled Master Your Self-Talk and subtitled Filter out negative influences and talk to yourself compassionately. Yet another article at The Buckley School on May 5, 2021 is titled Calm Public Speaking Nerves: Let’s Talk about Self-Talk.

 

There is a post by Catherine Syme at the Fear-Less blog on February 11, 2021 titled Nervous About Public Speaking? Self-Talk That Actually Helps. And way back on August 27, 2014 I blogged about Should fear of negative self-talk be on Top Ten lists of fears?

 

Finally, there is a very detailed, 12-page pdf article by Kathyrn E. Schertz et al. at Scientific Reports [Nature] on November 6, 2025 titled The frequency, form, and function of self-talk in everyday life. I found it at PubMed Central.

 

The self-talk woman was adapted from a cartoon at Wikimedia Commons.