May 18th, 2025

Issue 30

Weekly Pause & Reset

Mindfully designed to offer healthy lifestyle-design & wellbeing info, tips, inspiration & insights to jumpstart your week.

Mindset Traps

Welcome Sunday 😌

How many thoughts do you have in a day, any guesses? Too many to count! The average person has between 6,000-12,000 (or more!) thoughts per day. Many of these thoughts are habitual & repetitive...and unfortunately many of them are negative in nature. Some days I can definitely relate to this, maybe you can too.

Mindset traps are unhelpful thoughts that can influence our emotions and behaviors. Here are some examples (the mindset trap is in bold with the example next to it):

• “Should” Statements → “I should have…” or “I should be…” These are very common, I fall into this trap and have been working hard to reframe these thoughts and stop “should-ing” on myself :)

• Emotional Reasoning → “I feel like I’m not good enough to get the promotion” (so it must be true).

• Disqualifying the positive → “It was just luck that I did well on… (the test, the presentation…even though you prepared for it).

• Mind-Reading (or jumping to conclusions) → “They must be mad at me, they haven’t responded to my text.”

• Mental Filter → Getting an overall positive work review, but overlooking the positive remarks and instead focusing on the one critical comment.  

• To see more of these mindset traps (7 more!) and examples, check out this document.

First step, recognize when you are having a “mindset trap moment”. Then challenge the negative thought! Is it true? Probably not 🥰

Here’s to a great week ahead 🌿

With 🩷, Steph

Weekly Wellness Intention 💫

I release limiting beliefs and refuse to be trapped by negative thought patterns that do not serve my well-being. I choose to cultivate a healthy mindset by focusing on growth, gratitude, and self-compassion each day.

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