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  For years, I’ve been smothered with internal negative self-talk derived from external influences such as conflicts, tragedies, and other traumatic experiences. The suffocation of the negative self-talk enabled me to live a life full of anger and insecurity. I know I am not alone in this debilitating conversation. All of us have some negative self-talk that inhibits the true person we are meant to be— confident and active individuals. The trick is how to rid ourselves of it so that we can breathe. When I started reading Redesign Your Mind , I loved the metaphor of the mind being a “room” that needs to be redesigned. The idea of restructuring the mind with a different way of thinking as one reconstructs/rearranges a room with various items to make it fresh and functional was easy to understand. Throughout the book, Dr. Maisel acted as an Interior Design professor to teach us how to redesign our “room “(mind) with different writing prompts in each chapter. Each chapter presented a new i