Creating Recovery

“Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming…”

~Dory the regal blue tang fish

In a scene of the computer-animated film Finding Nemo, Dory’s companion Marlin the clownfish, becomes exasperated with her singing and exclaims, “See, I’m going to get stuck now with that song–now it’s in my head!”

Some messages do get stuck in our heads. Those that have been delivered repeatedly are particularly clingy. Songs and other messages with a lyrical quality are even more pervasive—especially if they contain repeated words—and can be called into play almost instantly.

What short, memorable phrases bubble up during your most challenging moments?

Do they help move you forward?

Or do they hold you back?

If the messages in your brain threaten to pull you under, grab a life line! Reach for words that inspire. Create a new internal library of uplifting quotes, affirmations, and songs. Rewrite the script in your head by replacing outdated, limiting, hurtful messages, with those that encourage you onward.

And just keep swimming. Your new life is taking shape.

As the curator of my internal library, I say, “Out with the old scripts!” My inner space is now reserved for positive, uplifting messages only.