What you Say To Yourself Matters: How the Voice in Your Head Is Lowering Your Vibe, and the 10 Practices That Change It
Language: English
Published by Lawrence Laddaga, 2026
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- Title
- What you Say To Yourself Matters: How the Voice in Your Head Is Lowering Your Vibe, and the 10 Practices That Change It
- Author
- Laddaga, Lawrence
- Publisher
- Lawrence Laddaga
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798996091614
What science discovered after ninety years of research: connection—not diet, exercise, or wealth—is the single greatest predictor of a long and happy life.
The Harvard Study of Adult Development found that the quality of your relationships can add as much as twenty years to your lifespan. This isn’t a metaphor. It’s the largest longitudinal study of human happiness ever conducted, now nearly ninety years in, and this is what it found.
So why does connection feel so hard?
Lawrence Laddaga spent thirty years answering that question. The obstacle, he found, is the voice in your head. The one that says you’re not enough, not deserving, not worthy of the relationships you want. He calls it the Critic—and silencing it is both the hardest thing he ever did and the thing that changed everything else.
In under a hundred pages, What You Say to Yourself Matters is the result of that thirty-year journey: ten practices, drawn from decades of reading, testing, and living, that together raise your vibe, quiet the Critic, and make you genuinely magnetic to the people around you.
The ten practices:
Gratitude · Forgiveness · Acceptance & Nonjudgment · Intuition · Mindfulness & Meditation · Building a Practice · Kindness & Generosity · Hobbies & Passions · Service to Others · Health & Movement
Each chapter opens with a story from Lawrence’s own life—the sapphire ring his mother never got to wear long enough, the 2am bodybuilder who ran out of ego fuel and found only love left, the nurse who said one sentence that changed a grieving man’s relationship with his own guilt. Each chapter ends with three concrete things to try today.
No spiritual framework or particular background required.
This book is for the reader who:
• Has committed to change but doesn’t know where to start
• Has read the big self-help books and gotten inspiration without tools
• Is tired of being told what to achieve and never how
• Has twenty minutes, not twenty years
Lawrence Laddaga is a lawyer in Charleston, South Carolina, where he has practiced for more than four decades. In his forties, dealing with anxiety, depression, and a lifelong weight problem, he started reading everything he could find and testing what actually worked. Thirty years later he has lost 105 pounds, practiced yoga for 18 years, danced Argentine tango for 17, and given away more than 27,300 homemade caramels. This is his first book. His Guides are already asking about the second.ma
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