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Podcast: Say It Out Loud with Vasavi Kumar
Episode: Making Friends with your Inner Critic
Description: For most of us humans, our Inner Critic is formed very early on in childhood. What most people don’t understand is that the job of the Inner Critic is to protect us from disapproval, hurt, and abandonment from others. Basically, it’ll criticize you before you can receive any criticism from others. Basically your Inner Critic is the annoying, hurtful, condescending voice inside of you that is constantly trying to whip you into shape. The goal of your Inner Critic is to help you avoid pain, disapproval, and shame at all costs. Once you can clearly ident...