Louise Eyrie

Well, that's a bit mean.

Why are you talking to me like that?

That's not hugely positive and encouraging, is it?

And I said, well, two weeks ago you told me that everything I say which is positive, if everything is positive, then it can't be true.

So I'm just giving you a bit of a home truth today.

Would you like me to go back to the other one?

He went, yes, please.

And I went, well, I tried.

Yeah.

It was just a bad game.

And then he came off thinking he'd played brilliantly.

And there's his mother going, that was a bit average.

So it's good to be self-critical because it probably means you've got a little bit of self-awareness to an extent, but you don't want it to be limiting you and knocking your confidence and stopping you doing things.

So it's coming back to that whole, I might feel a certain way, I might think a certain way, but the reality could be quite different.

That's really interesting.

Yeah.

So what do you do about it then?

You're listening to The Little Things and our guest is psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald.

Talking about dealing with criticism and negative thoughts.

We'll be back after the break.