Your brain isn't built to make you happy
Your brain isn't built to make you happy, it's built to keep you alive.
Your brain isn't built to make you happy, it's built to keep you alive.
Before you can be kind to others, learn to be kind to yourself.
Each year, Time to Talk Day 2026 invites us to pause and consider the role that conversation plays in our mental and emotional wellbeing.
Here are some simple suggestions of things you can do when it feels like your emotions are not on your side.
There always seems to be so much pressure surrounding this first week of the new year.
December and the New Year can be overwhelming for many.
When the list of tasks facing you looks impossible, stop.
When your thoughts get loud, remember this...
Your brain doesn't believe what's true; it believes what is familiar. And what's familiar, is what you repeat.
Your thoughts shape your feelings, your feelings drive your actions and your actions shape your identity. This is how your brain wires who you think you are.
BUT...
Your brain is changeable. Say something often enough... with emotion... and your brain rewires for it.
That's why self-talk isn't harmless. It's powerful.
The way you speak to yourself becomes the way you feel about yourself.
Your brain doesn't know the difference between real and imagined, so visualising the calm, confident, capable version of you? That's not fluff. That's neuroscience.
You don't own your thoughts; they visit. You don't have to believe them.
If you wouldn't say it to your best friend, don't say it to yourself either!
Change the input... and you can change the outcome.
Mrs Westergaard, Wellbeing Team
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