Want more posts like this in your life? Join the Tiny Buddha list for daily or weekly insights. “You will never speak to anyone more than you speak to yourself in your head. Be kind to yourself.” ~Unknown Talking to ourselves in a nurturing way can be a challenge if we rarely heard nurturing words in the early formative years of our lives. In fact, if we were often criticized or neglected, we probably learned to criticize and neglect ourselves instead. When I was growing up, my mom was a dedicated wife and mother, but she suffered from deep depression, … Continue reading The Art of Nurturing Self-Talk: How to Tell Yourself What You Need to Hear