The voice narrating your life has never once been a neutral reporter. Fact-check it.

There is a running commentary in your head and it is not a camera. It has moods, favorite conclusions, and a habit of stating opinions in the same flat tone it uses for facts. That is why the worst sentence about yourself feels like an observation rather than a claim. It sounds like news because it arrives in your own voice.

Try treating the harshest line it produces this week as a statement that needs evidence. Write it down, then write what you would actually have to know for it to be true. Most of them do not survive that.