When Self-Talk Is Medicine - by Reuben Lowe

COURSE

When Self-Talk Is Medicine

With Reuben Lowe

Step back from the mind’s patterns. Step forward with intention. Reconnect through the healing power of validating self-talk. Your mind works hard to keep you safe — sometimes too hard. In its effort to protect you, it can flood you with thoughts that feel harsh, urgent, or defeating. But there is another way. When Self-Talk Is Medicine is a 5-day journey through gentle insights, poetic metaphors, and validating self-talk — all designed to help you disengage from automatic mental chatter and reconnect with the wiser, kinder voice inside. This course offers soft, steady support for moments of overwhelm, self-doubt, or inner tension. You’ll learn how to rewire thought patterns through compassion, breathe with difficult feelings, and speak to yourself in ways that feel like care — not correction. No pressure. No perfection. Just small, meaningful shifts toward that well-deserved meaningful connection that you so deserve. Because sometimes, the most powerful medicine… is how you talk to yourself.


Meet your Teacher

Reuben Lowe founded an online organisation 'Mindful Creation', as well as the non-profit for young people’s mental health called 'ACT on it'. Specialising in ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy) and mindfulness-based therapies, he works at the largest private health clinic in the Southern Hemisphere. He currently designs and standardises the ACT programs throughout Australia for Healthscope. Reuben is also an EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing) therapist and works with people who experience severe trauma. He is passionate about empowering others to be part of the mindful change that’s taking place in our world.

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5 Days

448 students

4.9 stars

12 min / day

Awakening

English


Lesson 1

The Conveyor Belt Of Thought - Disengaging Without Blame

In today’s session, we’ll be guided to gently step back from the stream of automatic thoughts — like stepping off a conveyor belt that never stops moving. We’ll experience the power of simply noticing thoughts as they pass by, without judgment, and without needing to believe or fight them. This is a taste of spaciousness — learning to disengage without blame, and discovering that awareness itself is already a kind response.

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Lesson 2

Not My Friend, Nor My Enemy – Acknowledging The Choice

For the second session, we’ll experience a powerful shift in how we relate to our minds. Rather than seeing it as a friend or a foe, we’ll begin to view it as a survival tool doing its job — sometimes helpfully, sometimes not. This opens the door to choice. We’ll explore what it’s like to pause, breathe, and choose which thoughts to follow — empowering ourselves to respond with clarity and care.

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Lesson 3

For When It Hurts – Softening Through Self-Acknowledgement

In today’s session, we turn inward during moments of pain. You’ll be guided through the experience of softening — not to fix what hurts, but to acknowledge it. Through validating self-talk, we’ll learn how to stay present when it matters most, offering a gentleness that soothes the nervous system and nurtures emotional resilience.

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Lesson 4

What To Say Instead – Re-engaging With Intention

In our fourth session, you’ll be invited to speak back to yourself with compassion and clarity. This is where intentional self-talk begins to take root. You’ll explore the difference between automatic mental chatter and chosen, validating words that support your growth. It’s not about being positive — it’s about being present and aligned with what matters most.

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Lesson 5

The Greater Intelligence – Where Awareness Becomes Compassion

In our final session, we’ll experience what it’s like to rest in the deeper awareness behind all thought — the part of us that can notice without judgment and respond with compassion. We’ll reflect on the idea that validating self-talk isn’t just a mental skill, but a spiritual practice that honors your humanity. This is where presence becomes power, and awareness becomes love.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 53 community questions and 49 audio replies from Reuben Lowe. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Theresa

February 9, 2026

Another fantastic course Reuben, thank you 🙏🤗🥰

Senga

February 4, 2026

Very helpful and worth listening to. Much appreciated Reuben. 🙏🙏💖😊

Sybil

January 17, 2026

So wise . Thank you Reuben again.🙏

Jeanne

November 28, 2025

Thanks 🙏 Reuben. I will return to this course in the future to re-enforce the help it’s provided me.

cнarloттe

November 14, 2025

"some days youll remember, somedays you wont" Thats okay💖 You have a gift and im so grateful for you sharing that gift with the world. Thank you

jean

October 23, 2025

Thank you for this, love the course when self talk is medicine truly speaks to the soul 🥹

Anne

October 16, 2025

Interesting course with good advice and exercises

Carlos

September 29, 2025

This course came to me when I most needed it. Everything that Reuben spoke of in these lessons resonated with me at the level of soul. I am very grateful to have found it…or did it find me?

Karin

September 28, 2025

Thank you for this great tool for self growth 🙏🏼

Maria

September 25, 2025

Thank you

Mike

September 24, 2025

Would highly recommend this course. Invaluable wisdom.

Lisa

September 23, 2025

Thank you, Reuben, for this course!

Cindy

September 22, 2025

Loved his reinforcement of choosing to speak something different into myself. I don’t have to sit in the negative. I can choose something different.

Nada

September 19, 2025

Thank you Ruben nice course 👏👏👏😇🌻

Maggie

September 18, 2025

Incredible to me! I loved the pace and organization of the “meditative lectures”, the language and tone was impeccably skillful. Grateful ❤️

Sara

September 17, 2025

Wonderful content. Spoke directly to me. I am going to repeat the course.

Philip

September 15, 2025

A great course! It really resonated with me! Thank you!!

Robin

September 15, 2025

Another excellent course to give us coping strategies and tools. Reuben is so compassionate and committed to this 🙏🏻

Wendy

September 14, 2025

Thank you so much for this course Reuben, I love the mantras. The world is so full of hate right now, it’s helpful to be reminded that we are part of the quiet change.

Derek

September 14, 2025

Wonderful course - highly recommended and chock full of gentle reminders, mantras and tools. We are not our thoughts, and our thoughts do not control us, much in the same way, we are not the thoughts of others nor do they control us. I find it especially helpful in this world of seemingly constant bombardment from social media; we have agency and can choose our own path, despite the rabbit holes of perspectives that take us off track from shining our light and being our best selves.

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