Category: The Inner Critic

Accepting Your Inner Critic

4/29/2022

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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.

Working Mindfully with "Shoulds"

3/18/2022

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Embracing the Shoulds

I think it was one of my professors in graduate school that said “stop ‘shoulding’ all over yourself.” Hearing this was revolutionary for me, because at that time I hadn’t realized how much and how often I was “shoulding” on myself. It was a lot. Like, pretty much all the time. And often when I’d tell myself I should be doing XYZ, I didn’t end up actually doing the thing I was telling myself that I should do, I just felt guilty or ashamed for not being the way that I thought I should be.

Accepting Your Inner Critic

Help Your Inner Critic Relax

Working Mindfully with "Shoulds"

Embracing the Shoulds

Maggie Jones Boyle, LPC

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