How to Improve Your Internal Voice
Merve Karakus examines the critical inner voice and offers a self-compassionate way to develop gentler, more supportive inner language.
By Merve Karakus
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How do we develop an internal voice that's softer and can support us instead of a critical inner voice that brakes us and makes us feel shame? It might sound like: "I couldn't do it ever" "I am a bad mother" "I will never succeed"The critical voice is in all of us, especially when you think something's wrong.If someone else told us these critical things, we're going to find cruel and offensive. And why is that?So, why would we listen to the critical inner voice?We listen to the critical inner voice because without it, we don't think we can't get our shit together. We think that voice speaks for our good, supports our progress and progress.Some of it's actually true. With this voice, we can…