Emma Waddington
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1,016 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 13 Aug
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So I thought we would start with this inner critic.
I think we all have an inner critic.
I know that in a previous conversation that I heard that you had, apparently there's a small cohort that doesn't have an inner critic.
But my experience is that most of us have this sort of
inner voice that can really make us feel small and less than.
And I thought we could start there, introducing this inner critic, this voice that we all have.
And maybe one of you can tell us a bit about this and how to identify it, because I don't think it's that obvious to many of us that we do have a voice inside our heads or very critical thoughts.
Somebody once said to me, it was like they're backing singers.
That's quite funny.
Yeah, it was a good metaphor.
It really is a backing singer.
And for me, it is a pretty permanent fixture to having an opinion on a lot of the things that I do.
And unless I'm really aware, I can start to feel really bad about myself or about whatever I'm doing to catch myself.
Yes.
So it's interesting that our inner critic has come on a journey, an evolutionary journey with us, as in it's old.
It's an old part of life.
the way that we speak to ourselves that is primarily developed in order to keep us safe.
Because like you said, Holly, you don't want to be excluded from the group because we are herd animals.
We need to be in our group in order to be safe.
I think it was, I think Chris quotes us that lone monkey is a dead monkey.
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