This week our SONG TO CHEW is from my “Pluggin’ Away" album.  It’s called I CAN IF I WANNA.  The chorus is 'call and response' with a little character we call the 'Neggy'.  It's that little 'voice' inside us that undermines our self-confidence and says "you'll never accomplish what you're trying to do!"  It's different than hearing 'an opinion' from someone who thinks we ought to change something so it will work better.  When we hear Neggy comments that are not helpful, like "that will never work!", or "there's no point trying that!", or "you're going to fail for sure!", those kinds of opinions 'squash our hope'.  That's our Neggy talking!  Most of us have heard negative messages before and we've survived.  It's important to realize that when we hear people around us, tell us again and again and again that we're not capable, we begin to internalize those messages and say them to ourselves!  And it takes lots of positive messages to counter-balance the negative ones we've learned to accept, so I hope you sing-along with us really loud, so you know that 'you can if you wanna!!"  I'll be back next week, with another ‘Song to Chew’.  Bye for now!
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