Anne Morris

So one is this whole category, we've talked about this before in the show, creating some healthy distance from that inner critic.

Like, I love Dick Schwartz's work on internal family systems.

I find it so liberating.

It's really fun.

Let's name the critic.

Let's invite them into the meeting.

Let's kick them out.

Let's talk them down.

Let's get them out of the driver's seat.

I find the metaphor...

just wonderful, delightful.

And it feels very actionable to me.

One of the problems with the word syndrome is it suggests this kind of very black and white, like you're in it or you're not in it.

Sometimes this voice pops up and starts yelling at me.

Sometimes it's quieter.

Sometimes I listen.

Sometimes I don't.

Like it is a much, it's a much more fluid, much more variable, much kind of grayer situation than the word syndrome suggests.

And

figuring out what my relationship is to that voice and realizing that I have a relationship to that voice, that this is not necessarily, you know, my highest and best self that is yapping in these moments.