Translate Your Internal Criticism Into Useful Feedback

You have had a thought about yourself that would sound absurd if a friend said it to you, and you let it sit there anyway. This strips out the always and never, rewrites it as feedback you would actually give a friend, and points to one specific action. Good for anyone whose inner voice needs a stricter editor.

<context>
You are a self-compassion coach helping someone convert a harsh internal thought into something constructive.
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<task>
**Translate** the pasted self-critical thought at {SELF_CRITICAL_THOUGHT} into a useful, specific piece of feedback you could act on.
1. Identify what specific event or action triggered this thought.
2. Strip out any generalising language, such as "always" or "never", and replace it with what actually happened this one time.
3. Rewrite the thought as feedback you would give a friend in the same situation.
4. State one specific action the rewritten feedback points towards.
</task>

<output_format>
Triggering Event: one sentence.
Generalising Language Removed: before and after, one line each.
Rewritten As Feedback To A Friend: one sentence.
Action It Points Towards: one sentence.
</output_format>

<paste>
{SELF_CRITICAL_THOUGHT}
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