Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Meditation Studio.

I'm Patricia Carpice.

In this series, we introduce you to real people with extraordinary stories and experts who

share how meditation and mindfulness practices change our lives.

Our podcast is brought to by Meditation Studio, Apple's Pick as one of the 10 best apps of the year. Why download

the app? Because life is messy. We get stressed, anxious, have trouble sleeping. We work too hard.

We deal with conflict. Our hearts get broken. We worry about the state of the world. We meditate

because we're human. Our app gives you hundreds of

meditations from over 30 leading experts. It helps a lot. And if you haven't tried the app yet,

you can now download it for free and explore a starter series with Elisha Goldstein, plus a sample

of some of our favorite guided meditations in the Discover collection.

And if you've already got the app, check out our new unguided meditation timer,

where you can create your own meditations with or without our brand new, pretty amazing music tracks.

And don't forget the eight free meditations on Alexa. Just ask her to enable

meditation studio. Today's guest is author, speaker, and creativity evangelist Denise Jacobs. Denise's

most recent book is called Banish the Inner Critic, Silence the Voice of Self-Doubt to unleash your creativity

and do your best work. Denise met her own relentless inner critic, or inner bully, as she

likes to call it, when she was writing her first book. She dealt with imposter syndrome,

constantly comparing herself to others, and judged

herself harshly sleepless night after night. She shares how she ultimately learned to turn

off that negative voice so her own creativity would flow more freely. And yes, when your inner

critic is silent, it does allow for us to be more creative,

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