Donna Ashworth

Their self-talk is better.

But we, women our age, are unpicking decades of negative self-talk.

And you can't judge yourself for the thoughts that pop in.

But you can judge yourself for the ones you choose to keep and run with.

Because you have the control to stop that right in the bud and flip it and look for the love.

A learned skill that we're not taught.

I much rather would have taken that exam and that class than, you know, algebra, which I've never once used in my whole entire life.

But we're not taught these things that actually will physically have an impact on your whole life every single day.

But we're not learning from a blank canvas.

We're unpicking the damage that has been done over decades where you learn the hard way to live in a really damaging way.

And there's much easier ways to live and there's much easier ways to exist.

But first of all, you've got to go back and undo some of the bad stuff that was done.

Open randomly.

Let the book give you the message that you need.

It seems to work.

Yeah, I was just saying earlier today, I am a lockdown baby.

You know, I'm a pivot person who just started something completely different in lockdown and changed my whole life.

I moved as well.

from England back home to Scotland in lockdown, well, in between the two lockdowns.

When you were allowed to.