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Help Your Inner Critic Relax
Having an activated inner critic—a voice that’s constantly telling us all the ways in which we aren’t good enough or how we should be different—sucks. It’s painful and usually goes hand-in-hand with guilt, anxiety, and low self-esteem. So, it’s completely normal to wish your inner critic would just disappear.