Ep 105 - Quieting Your Inner Critic

<p>Hello and welcome to another episode of How to Love Your Body - this is Jenna and Lauren and today we are going to be talking about quieting your inner critic. </p> <p>You can follow along with the worksheet that goes with this episode here <a href='http://www.thebodylovesociety.com/105'>www.thebodylovesociety.com/105</a></p> <p>You know the mean girl inside your head that makes you believe anything they say? She is something that gets to be handled because when the thoughts inside your head are constantly telling you how bad, unworthy, and such a failure you are - it will take you a heck of a lot longer to get to a place of love  and food and body freedom when you have such a negative nancy pulling you down. </p> <p>So what do to with the inner critic when her head is roaring? </p> <p>Acknowledge her and have compassion for her- she wants to be heard. She wants to be loved. She wants to be comforted. Even though she’s being such a mean girl - it’s the only way she knows how to communicate. It’s her cry for help - for that love and attention. </p> <p> Of course you aren’t going to agree with the mean things she is saying - what you can do is understand her - and tell her that you understand that it’s hard. To have compassion for her because it’s clear that she’s suffering. Give her the acknowledgment that she’s looking for - tell her that you are there for her and you have no judgement- you can say “ thank you for sharing, but the things you are saying are not my truth.” Just by allowing the inner critic to have a voice allows it to come up and then be placed into the background. You don’t give anymore energy to it. When they get loud, you listen to them, and let them be on their way as you hold a space of compassion and understanding. She is a part of you but that doesn’t mean she gets to be the boss of you. You take the power back. Here are some tangible activities you can do to quiet the inner critic. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <ul><li>POST IT NOTES- After this episode or when