You're listening to The Confidence Podcast. Your favorite coaching podcast oozes in with motivation, inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take action on your dreams.

On your host, Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized confidence coach, best-selling author, and founder of the College of Confidence, the most encouraging place on the internet.

I teach go getters in life how to take their thoughts captive, how to step out of the shadows of self-doubt, and how to courageously step into their purpose with confidence.

It's time to pump our confidence muscles and train our thoughts y'all. Let's get started.

Hey there, it's Trish Blackwell, and you're listening to The Confidence Podcast episode 510.

We're talking about a really, really powerful topic today that we all need help remembering that we have more control than we think that we do, and that is the critical voice, the self-critical voice.

That voice, we're here beating yourself up all the time. That's right. We're talking about silencing the self-critical voice.

Because that inner self-critical voice, it has the power to keep you from your fullest potential, and from your ability to experience pure happiness in your journey of life.

And when you learn how to pursue progression, not perfection, the self-critical voice starts to lose its power, but you still need to learn how to get rid of that bully for good.

This podcast episode is going to teach you exactly how to talk back to your negative self-critical thoughts so that you don't hold you back any longer.

Hey, as always, if you are going along and you can't take a note, you're driving, you're on the treadmill, your hands are deep in the kitchen sink, and you want to go back to something I mentioned.

Whether it's a quote or a link, please know you can always get the show notes at my website at trishblackwell.com, and then forward slash the episode number.

So for today's notes, you can find them all at trishblackwell.com, forward slash 5, 10.

As I said, specifically in this episode, we're talking about that mean voice, that lurks inside of you, and spirals you into defeat, discouragement, and discontent, the three d's, defeat, discouragement, and discontent.

I'm going to be talking to you about self-criticism as intentional self-sabotage.

And also how to believe in the neuroplasticity of your brain that is in the ability to truly change how you think.

I really think what's exciting here is that it is self that doesn't take discipline to be self-critical.

The brain, it's an easy out, it's an easy go to self-loathing and self-business and pity doesn't take discipline.

It takes discipline to have the mindset to say, I know this, this beating myself up and putting pressure on myself, it's not effective.

It takes discipline to say, I'm going to choose kindness.

I'm going to rise above the negativity that is criticism.

It takes discipline to live differently.

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