The voice in your head isn't fully yours

We inherited it from our childhood caretakers

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Our journey to make peace within

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What you'll find inside

1. Stories we have never said out loud

We promised each other to write only the truth - even when it felt vulnerable. Readers called it raw, honest, even shocking: "Can this really be shared?"

Ice bathing
Elena and Barack Obama
Vipassana retreat
Childhood
Draper Survival Week
Primary school
Nature Scientific Reports — study on the effects of self-talk on brain functional connectivity

2. The science on how our minds distort reality

This isn't self-help fluff.
It's grounded in real research on how self-talk shapes your brain.

3. Practical tools to question the voice in your head

You'll learn to spot your triggers, question what your inner voice is really telling you, and choose a truer story instead.

Writing practice in the park

What other readers are saying

People don't just read this - they start noticing their own self-talk differently the next day.

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Why self-talk deserves a closer look

We lived inside our inner critic's version of reality for a long time before we realized it wasn't the truth.
We wrote this book so you can see the difference faster than we did.

Elena and Viorica recording the podcast — Everything about writing our first book

Explore the chapters

Each chapter targets a different way your mind distorts reality - see what you'll learn to recognize

  1. A reality check
  2. Self-talk
  3. The origins of our inner voice
  4. The memory system that runs our body and mind
  5. The infrastructure of our brain
  6. New habits mean new brain infrastructure
  7. Self-talk and the neural pathways
  8. The belief system behind our self-talk
  9. Peace of mind requires a language upgrade
  1. Survival story at Draper University
  2. Thoughts can make us perform
  3. Thoughts can make us sick
  4. The mind-body connection and ways to heal your body
  5. Visceral therapy – a method to embody peace
  6. Fasting – a method to embody peace
  7. Breathwork – a method to embody peace
  8. Choices
  1. Duality
  2. Trauma
  3. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
  4. Two types of trauma
  5. Trauma and dysfunctional thinking patterns
  6. The gravity centre of our belief system
  7. Belief sandbox
  1. The root and outcome exercise
  2. Being incomplete with the past
  3. How incompleteness is formed and solved
  4. Gratitude
  5. Rewiring the brain through genuine gratitude
  6. Letting go
  1. Having peace of mind while being with others
  2. Dig behind judgements
  3. Commitments behind our subpersonalities
  4. From commitments to peace of mind
  5. Forgiveness
  6. Self-acceptance
  1. My first self-talk audio
  2. The role of self-talk in self-actualization
  3. The role of the self-talk in the grand model of human evolution
  4. Spiral dynamics and peace of mind
  5. Being open to a new way of being
  6. Be-Do-Have

Illustrated concepts, developed with @golimitlesss — ≈ 500,000 followers on Instagram

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Ready to question what your mind's been telling you?

You can order the book here.

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