Narratives (the way you think, speak, and act) do not develop in a vacuum. Several realities can contribute to your choice of narratives including:
• your preferences of how you get your energy, process information, make choices, and related to the world
• biomedical realities such as ADHD
• memories and associated feelings about past events, and
• habits you have formed during your life.
Understanding the realities contributing to our narratives helps you better understand your narratives and develop more helpful alternatives.
How you speak about your problems, the contributions to your problems, and your capacities to deal effectively with your problems shapes your responses to your problems.
By focusing on your language about your problems you can gain insight into how you understand and address those problems. You can then step back and see things you may have missed or misunderstood about your problems. You can also begin to change the way you think (an internal narrative) and speak and act (externalized narratives). These changes can then help you better address your problems and develop more satisfactory solutions.