• If you want to stop an addiction or a compulsion, then stop the self-talk that wants to continue feeding upon it.
• Self-talk tells you that you need the fix or deserve the payoff of an addiction or compulsion, but it is the self-talk that needs it, not you.
• Self-talk tells you that you are defective, inferior, stupid, or worthless without the fix of an addiction or compulsion, but it is the self-talk that will become some kind of inferior, not you.
• Self-talk makes the excuses and rationalizations to sacrifice your happiness and health to an addiction or compulsion, because self-talk feeds on and grows when talking about the addiction or compulsion.
• Self-talk makes the excuses and rationalizations to sacrifice your relationships, career, and social life to an addiction or compulsion, because self-talk feeds on and grows when talking about the addiction or compulsion.
