The Mel Robbins Podcast · 2025-05-08 · 82 min · 15,098 words

How to Stop Negative Thoughts & Reset Your Mind for Positive Thinking

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Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. I I just walked out of the studio here in Boston. I am absolutely blown away by what I just learned about stopping negative self-talk from our guest. You're about to meet him. His name is Dr.

Ethan Cross. He's a professor at the University of Michigan, a neuroscientist, and he spent the last 25 years researching how your self-talk determines your experience of life and how it also impacts what it actually feels like to be you. Now, this is something that I've struggled with. And I know you struggle with negative self-talk too.

And the people that you care about struggle with it. I mean, I'm so blown away by what you're about to hear and what you're about to learn. In fact, I've never heard anyone lay out the exact ways you can stop negative self-talk. In fact, right out of the gate, he's going to tell you there are four reasons why you and I talk to ourselves.

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