Befriending the inner critic

Inner critic, self-compassion, perfectionism, people-pleasing, ADHD, psychotherapy, and mental health: in this episode of In Conversation With Myself, I explore why our inner critic develops and how we can begin relating to it with curiosity rather than criticism.

The voice in our head isn’t always our own. Sometimes it carries messages we’ve absorbed from parents, teachers, relationships, or society. Over time, those voices can become our own internal dialogue.

In this episode, I reflect on my own experiences of living with ADHD, the stories I learned about myself, and how I’ve started to understand my inner critic as something that was trying to protect me rather than hurt me.

Rather than asking, “How do I silence my inner critic?” I ask a different question ...