21/08/2025
When your Inner Critic is raging, ground into something neutral, hopeful, or compassionate.
1. Hi little, me, I can see you’re noticing the critical part of you now. Let’s try to keep it at bay. Let’s take ten deep breaths and focus on keeping awareness of this new separation of the part of me that is being attacked and the part of me that is being critical.
2. Hi Inner World. I notice the critical story is here today, and I’m having a hard time accepting myself. Let’s start with this prayer.
✨May I one day learn to love this part of myself.
✨May I one day find myself beneath the story.
✨May I one day find a space within myself that is silent from negative narration.
✨May I one day show the world who I am, proudly.
4. “Hi my little soul. I’m struggling today. I notice the critical voice, but I don’t know how to not be critical, yet. I can’t seem to find self-acceptance so for now, I’m just going to try and be curious about this story I’m hearing
✨ Hmm, how could this potentially sound?
✨ How could I potentially relate in a different way?
✨ How could I find someone to help me do this?
✨ How could I remain open to this possibility?
✨ I’ll just ask these questions, stay open to contemplation, and one day the answers will come to me. (Curiosity is gold, trust me. It’s just as good as clarity. Stay open.)
5. I’m open to changing my story. I’m open to the wildly radical possibility that I might one day like myself and try not to be something other than I am. I don’t know how I’ll get there, but I’m open to it. Show me how.
6. Try this compassionate prayer:
✨ May I find people where I feel safe.
✨ May I find places where I feel safe.
✨ May I find experiences where I feel safe.
7. When the inner voice is really loud, try “Hi voice. I can hear you. Loud, really loud. All I can muster today is repeating to myself this phrase:
✨ You are a story, and I notice you.
✨ You are a story, and I notice you.
You don’t have to know how to fight back, or outsmart it, or do anything fancy, just noticing it is 90% of the work.
I’d love to know what unrelenting story you might work with?
Did you find these helpful? Save them for a critical day 🫶🏼
