Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Hello my friends.

Today I'm sharing with you a story about a time that criticism hurt and the lessons that I learned from it. Now when I first

started creating media features for large media outlets that that's when I got my first taste of hate. media my ideas about the person that I am, of course, without knowing me, and even without even

reading what it is that I put out there, just often reading the headline about leaving my

job or being divorced in my early 20s and making a judgment and just letting the

wrath out right making me a target for how bad that they were feeling because

criticism is never about us.

Think about the times that you've criticized other people.

Are you feeling good in that moment?

Almost always not.

And criticism and feedback are different, right? Feedback can be gorgeous. and criticism well we all know what that feels like and

feedback can be gorgeous and generous and wonderful and criticism well we all

know what that feels like and what that looks like so I started you know kind of getting used to

criticism pretty early on and look I'm a human being it's not fun it's not something that I wake up to dying to receive, but I know that it's part

of the experience, right? Because you can't just have all of the blessings without some of the

shadow of that. You can't only have good things. You can't have

everyone like you. It's simply not realistic and I don't expect it to be that way.

In fact, often I tell my friends when they come to me upset by criticism

or receiving hates, I say, look, you know, the problem isn't that you're receiving this. The problem here is that you think this shouldn't happen, right?

The resistance, the struggle with it, the desire to want to change it or stop it or change

someone else's mind is where the struggle is. The fact that people are putting words on the internet about

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