What is Your Inner Critic?
Your inner critic is the dialogue that plays in your head, sending you negative messages that can sabotage your success. Some of the easy ways to spot your Inner Critic at work are:
- overly harsh words
- unfair comparisons to others
- repetitive messages
- old messages from other people
How can you stop your Inner Critic from Comparing you to Others?
Too many of us compare our messy insides to the “Instagram ready exterior” of others. Here are a few ways to stop letting your inner critic compare yourself to others:
- focus on you and your strengths
- expand your gratitude practice
- consider a social media fast
How Can You Stop Negative Thoughts from Your Inner Critic from Spiraling?
Once you start having intrusive thoughts, they tend to ramble on and on. In fact, these pervasive messages can feed off of each other until they become a constant barrage of criticism that leaves you doubting yourself and feeling stuck. But there are a few tips to get yourself back on track:
- recognize what is/isn’t true
- challenge your negative thinking by checking out with a trusted friend
- go ahead and think through the worst case scenario so you can move forward
- focus on what you can change and let the rest go for now
- get outside in nature and move to reset yourself
Learning to manage your inner critic is such an important part of self discovery that we put together a whole blog series around this topic. Below are links to all of the articles in our Inner Critic Series as well as our ebook and workbook. Check these out and learn to tame your inner critic voice.
Hush Now eBook & Workbook Combo
ABOUT HUSH NOW eBOOK: We all give into our inner critic now and then. This internal voice and be a powerful force and has the potential to hold us back from living our best...
Hush Now WORKBOOK – Quiet Your Inner Critic
This workbook is meant to accompany the Hush Now – Quiet Your Inner Critic eBook. You’ll use this resource as a tool to further explore the ideas in the eBook and to work through...
Hush Now – Quiet Your Inner Critic
We all give into our inner critic now and then. This internal voice and be a powerful force and has the potential to hold us back from living our best lives. Fortunately, you can...