PASSING THOUGHTS
PASSING THOUGHTS with Rebecca-Monique is a soul-led podcast exploring the nuanced landscapes of loss and grief, trauma, inner healing, race, and identity.
Hosted by Rebecca-Monique—an ICF accredited grief and trauma coach, coach supervisor, and storyteller—each episode offers deep, reflective dives that blend personal insight with professional wisdom.
With compassion and clarity, Rebecca-Monique unpacks the layered truths of human experience, inviting listeners to feel informed, inspired, and affirmed. Expect rich conversations, powerful coaching prompts, and space to come home to yourself—again and again.
These are not just passing thoughts, but sacred pauses: where story meets reflection, and healing begins.
Soulful deep dives. Rooted reflections. Gentle truths for the journey.
PASSING THOUGHTS
EPISODE 42: 5 CATEGORIES OF INNER-DIALOGUE | PASSING THOUGHTS PODCAST | rbccmnq
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Hi, I’m Rebecca-Monique: an ICF accredited (PCC) grief and trauma coach, and coach supervisor. My work is centred around supporting individuals through their healing and growth.
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Hi, I’m Rebecca-Monique – an ICF accredited coach and coach supervisor – and these are my passing thoughts.
We spend a quarter of our waking life talking to ourself.
The role of our internal language is to help understand ourself better.
According to ‘inner experience’ researcher Russell Hurlburt, there are 5 categories of inner dialogue. They are:
1 inner speaking- also known as our voice;
2 inner seeing – these are pictures and images;
3 feelings – for example happy, sad as well as more nuanced feelings such as frustration and elation;
4 sensory awareness i.e. physiological sensations;
5 unsymbolised thinking – which includes awareness of a thought but with the absence of words or pictures.
Our inner dialogue has a bias towards meaning-making over simply observing an experience. For example when eating, rather than observing ourself just experiencing taste, we may have many associated beliefs and values to the food: whether or not it’s tasty, or healthy; what eating the food says about our identity; if the food reminds us of a person or place etc.
Sometimes our inner-voice – be it a dialogue or monologue – sounds like an inner-critic that is harsh and unkind; rather than an inner-coach that is encouraging and compassionate.
When this happens there are a range of techniques we can use including meditation to enhance our somatic awareness and ability to notice our thoughts.
We can create distance by looking at things in the third person
There’s also reframing – where we reverse engineer a perception to offer a more empowering perspective.
We can get out of our head and declutter our mind through practices like journaling regularly.
We process an astounding amount of data daily and throughout our life. We’re simply trying to make order from the chaos.
Given how much time we actually spend in our mind and that our body is our home, it’s important we actively do our best to make it a healthy, kind place to be.
My question for you this week is:
What has your inner dialogue taught you about yourself lately?
Speak to you next week. Until then, be well.