“Be careful what you say to yourself because you are always listening.” – Lisa M Hays

 An aspect of self-talk is self-coaching. We can get through situations by coaching ourselves in productive ways. But just as there are coaches who bring the best out of us with the way they coach us or hinder our performance, the ways in which we coach ourselves can yield different results. Dr. Carmen Tebbe Priebe explains more about this technique and encourages that we ask ourselves about our self-coaching: is it productive or unhelpful?