Tara Mohr

What can I do to reduce uncertainty?

So you might have the same concern, but you're going to move forward in a very solution-oriented way when you're not hearing from that inner critic.

You know, a lot of times when you're in schools or workplaces or maybe home environments where the emphasis is on like

think critically, think critically.

You learn to think critically about everything, including eat yourself into pieces, doing critical, you know, skeptical thinking about your own dreams.

So your inner critic can be like a conqueror that took over your whole psyche.

But the voice of inner wisdom and the voice of your dreams and the voice that actually has a very calm, loving knowing is always there, but it can become very obscured.

And so sometimes we need a little bit of quiet and a little bit of loving support to find that voice again.

And we might have a slow process of walking back the sort of dominance of that inner critic.

It's number one, knowing it's there.

Yeah.

It's knowing it's not telling the truth.

It's actually viewing it with a lot of compassion because it is a scared part underneath.

We want to soothe it almost like we would a scared child in how we are

okay, honey, I hear you.

But, and then having those tools to use in the moment when it comes up.

Absolutely.

I mean, that's what I see every week in my work, that when women learn those tools, it's like habit change.

It is a habit formation to learn to respond differently.

And it's not that it becomes perfect, but instead of getting lost in believing your inner critic for six months, after two days, you go, oops, I got lost in a little inner critic trance there, and I'm going to make a different choice.