Let’s pretend we’re sipping tea together,
on the phone,
or taking a stroll out in the fresh air.

Now that you know that I believe in you,
I care about you,
and I want things to get easier for you,
what are you willing to believe about each of the ten thoughts you just wrote down?

Ask yourself:

-”What would Amanda say about this thought?”

-and or, “What might she offer as a possible thing to believe instead?”

1. ______________________________________________________

2. ______________________________________________________

3. ______________________________________________________

4. ______________________________________________________

5. ______________________________________________________

It’s okay if this feels hard.
Nothing has gone wrong.

Your brain just isn’t used to shifting its perspective
the way I’m encouraging you to do.

You can:

Or see if this example helps:

When I found out about my unplanned pregnancy in 2017,
and later chose to abort, it was the hardest thing I’d ever done.
I knew I made the right choice,
but I was feeling so many feelings around the experience.

One of the thoughts I had a lot was, “I’ll never be the same.”

Had I been asked to do this exercise after my abortion
I would have shifted my perspective to something like,
“I can do hard things;
they show me how strong I am,
and today I am stronger than I was before my unplanned pregnancy.”