5 Ways to Shift the Inner Critic
We all know that little (but not so little) voice. The one that shows up and hits us where it hurts with it’s annoying nay sayer language.
We all have one or sometimes multiple.
It’s got dark little secret energy.
It’s a voice that can breed shame.
It can keeps us small and confined to perceived safety.
That we’re maybe too much, unloveable or not healed enough.
The one that tells us our past is something to be embarrassed about.
It’s the one that tells us we aren’t enough, we don’t have enough and our butt should look a different way.
The one that keeps us in doing and hyper vigilance because it won’t let us take a freaking break. We can call it self punishment, self gaslighting or those imposters.
Those tricky fuckers are chameleons so tend to wear many hats and make up a lot of stories, that we tend to believe and adopt.
I mean to be fair, sometimes these voices are perpetuated by outside forces first and the critics just reinforce them. If it was or is repeated enough outside, it builds a deep neural pathway belief groove inside. It latches on to our nervous system responses. It becomes where we feel “safe” somewhere along the way. The inner critic validates that familiar voice.