Change Your Self Talk! Posted: March 8, 2025 | Last updated: June 23, 2025. Welcome to a transformative episode of The Game Plan podcast with your hosts, Rob Lipsett and James Blackwell.

Self-criticism is strongly linked with mental health difficulties, including depression and anxiety—but it’s a habit that can be changed with specific techniques.

And as it becomes genuine, your negative self-talk will fade, eventually losing its grip on you. I hope you’ll try some of my suggestions. These are hard times for almost everyone.

Why this form of negative self-talk is so subtle is that people mistake the judgment of their past as the truth. You want to look for the unexpected benefits, even if it takes years to uncover them.