Your brain will hand you a lot of opinions about you. You don’t have to accept every delivery.

Thoughts arrive whether or not you asked, and a harsh one about yourself feels official simply because it came from inside. Having the thought and agreeing with it are two separate events, and the gap between them is where you get a say. Most of those verdicts are never examined, which is the only reason they stand.

When one shows up this week, name it as something that arrived rather than something that is true. Ask what you would have to see for it to be accurate. Leave the ones that cannot answer unopened and get on with your day.