Your Courageous Life

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To continue with e-book week, today’s e-book is on…the inner critic. Crazily enough, I have this thing where I don’t call it a Gremlin or Monster or any names that connote awful things. I used to call it “the Gremlin,” and then stopped when I realized that the inner critic is a fear-based, scared part of myself–of each of us. If I want to embrace it, I would need to start by attaching a name to it that is more accurate and doesn’t have hints of offensiveness (I mean, would you be willing to work on being nicer to someone who was referring to you as a Gremlin?).

Instead of trying to push that inner critic away with affirmations and pretend it isn’t there–and instead of lashing ourselves harder with a whip, giving that inner critic all of our power, I think that we can work out ways to work with the inner critic, to retrain it so to speak. I think that managing the inner critic is critical to living courageously. I also think that it’s our responsibility to do it. No self-help book, guru, life coach, therapist, e-course, husband, amount of money, job, career, kids, etc., are going to “fix it” so that we feel more capable.

In addition, this book talks about how It’s a Practice–it’s a practice to refer again and again back to skills that serve us. It takes time to shift our lives. It’s easy to get discouraged and then decide to throw it all away and let the inner critic run the show.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 5:00 am |