Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from five-star app Meditation Studio.

I'm Patricia Carpus, co-founder of meditation studio and your host on Untangle, along with my co-host, Ariel Garden, one of the founders of brain-sensing headband Muse.

Join us each week as we introduce you to authors, experts, and thought leaders who share their stories on how meditation, mindfulness, and brain-focused practices have the power to change our lives.

Whether you're just learning to meditate or want to deepen your practice, meditation studio with hundreds of guided meditations and muse, which provides great biofeedback on your practice, are two awesome tools you

want to have in your back pocket.

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

Denise's most recent book is called Vanish 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,

whether you're writing a book, making music, or embarking on any new creative project.

Letting go of all that inner dialogue that keeps us stock and is pretty darn annoying,

can be very liberating.

She shares how we can actually rehabilitate our thoughts, especially the ones that are

judgy and relentlessly compare us to others.

You won't be surprised that things like mindfulness and self-compassion can be very helpful,

but there's a lot more.

Now, here's Denise to share her story.

Denise, it is such a pleasure to have you on Untangle today. Thanks so much for being here.

Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, I loved your book, banish your inner critic,

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