{"id":19505,"date":"2022-06-23T09:19:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T13:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=19505"},"modified":"2022-06-23T16:45:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T20:45:55","slug":"how-can-i-stop-letting-what-people-say-affect-me-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/06\/23\/how-can-i-stop-letting-what-people-say-affect-me-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I stop letting what people say affect me so much?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_1476.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_1476.jpg\" alt=\"How can I stop letting what people say affect me so much? I also take things in a worse way than someone likely intends.\" class=\"wp-image-19502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_1476.jpg 318w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_1476-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_1476-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_1476-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>How can I stop letting what people say affect me so much? I also take things in a worse way than someone likely intends.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A counselor (bit.ly\/BC-counseling) should be able to help you explore both why you weight others&#8217; words too heavily, and help practice strategies for letting go. One of my helpers describes it as turning up the volume of positive self-talk enough that it drowns out the excess criticism they internalize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A counselor (bit.ly\/BC-counseling) should be able to help you explore both why you weight others&#8217; words too heavily, and help practice strategies for letting go. One of my helpers describes it as turning up the volume of positive self-talk enough that it drowns out the excess criticism they internalize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19511,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19505\/revisions\/19511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}