{"id":12560,"date":"2016-01-13T16:14:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T06:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=12560"},"modified":"2024-07-03T07:36:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T21:36:02","slug":"your-worst-bullies-are-your-own-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=12560","title":{"rendered":"Your Worst Bullies Are Your Own Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/YourWorstBullies.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12561\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/YourWorstBullies-300x300.png\" alt=\"Your Worst Bullies Are Your Own Thoughts\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least the negative thoughts are. And they aren&#8217;t you. It&#8217;s important to draw that distinction. Any negative, self-invalidating, pessimistic or destructive thought is not you. Don&#8217;t buy it as being you. Ditch it. Instantly. You will be so much better off just doing that one thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least the negative thoughts are. And they aren&#8217;t you. It&#8217;s important to draw that distinction. Any negative, self-invalidating, pessimistic or destructive thought is not you. Don&#8217;t buy it as being you. Ditch it. Instantly. You will be so much better off just doing that one thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53202,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12560\/revisions\/53202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}