Hello, and welcome back to the Self-Healer Soundboard.

On the last few episodes, we've been diving into the conditioned mind and our hidden beliefs.

And one of the things that is born from those hidden beliefs in that conditioned mind is

our inner critic, that inner critical, judgmental, shameful voice that often enters us into

a cycle of shame.

So we decided to devote an entire episode today to the inner critic and that shame cycle

that ensues.

I think this is a perfect place to start even in troing this concept of conditioning.

Because when we're born, we're not actually born in judgment of or in criticism of ourselves.

We're born as if you've been tuning into the past couple of episodes, we've been talking

and describing it like a pure state of awareness.

Things are happening and we're registering those happenings, but we're not necessarily

being critical or judgmental.

What we are doing, based on an evolutionary drive, if you will, is we are looking and assessing

to see how we compare or how we measure up to other people.

Because really, simply what we're most prioritizing in that moment are our relationships.

Because in childhood, we are dependent on our relationships to make sure that our basic

needs are met.

So then depending on how safe we feel to really simply be who we are, to register what's

happening, to be curious, to make sense of what's happening, we're looking to the world

around us for feedback.

And oftentimes when our environment's aren't safe, when we're not being modeled, how to

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