How to Re-frame Our Inner Critic

Emotional Badass

Nikki Eisenhauer

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Is your inner critic sabotaging your mental health? I've never met a highly sensitive person who didn't have an overdeveloped inner-critic. This inner bully robs our progress, dis-empowers, and devalues who we are, especially when our energies are low. Without addressing the inner critic, we are at risk of digging mental health holes that become deeper and more difficult to crawl out of. You were never meant to be in a hole, rather, you were meant to stand tall and proud at the peak of the mountain of life. Learn how to reframe these thoughts for better mental health. This episode explores the impact of negative self-talk on Highly Sensitive People (HSP) and trauma survivors. We discuss mindfulness techniques to observe and counteract the inner critic's voice, replacing it with positive affirmations. Discover practical steps to enhance your self-care routine and promote emotional resilience. If you are interested in supporting us even more than a 5-star review, you can find Emotional Badass on Patreon where you will get hundreds of hours of bonus episodes, monthly video livestreams, discounts, community, and different opportunities to work with Nikki in group format https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass Resources: Download the free Morning Routine PDF to learn our techniques to help conquer your day! https://www.emotionalbadass.com/morning-routine Community & Exclusive Bonus Episodes & Video: https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass 30 Days to Peace Course: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/peace CODE: BADASS for 30% Off Mapping your Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse Workshop https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/workshops CODE: BADASS for 30% Off Brain.FM: CODE: Emotionalbadass for 20% off and a free month Join our newsletter for weekly wellness emails where we share mental health tips, announcements, discount codes, and highlight past episodes: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/newsletter Check out our Guided Meditations narrated by Nikki available for sale: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/store/meditations Follow us on Social Media: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/emotionalbadass IG: https://www.instagram.com/emotional.badass FB: https://www.facebook.com/emotionalbadass TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@emotionalbadass Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/emotionalbadass Thank you for supporting this show by supporting our sponsors: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/sponsors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.0	Hello, welcome to Emotional Badass, where Moxie meets Mindful.
1:00.0	I'm your host, Nicki Eisenhower, Life Coach and Psychotherapist, and on today's episode I'm discussing
1:06.3	reframing low vibe processing from the inner critic. neck. In my early recovery, every healthy move I made on my seekers path, I saw it as not good enough
1:40.6	because it wasn't perfect. And my inner critic would shame me before anyone else had the
1:46.0	chance. This is a dysfunctional self-care strategy that erodes high vibes that makes us take steps back when we're trying so
1:57.8	desperately to move forward. It erodes our positivity and it doesn't really matter if it's big things or small things
2:07.2	I would cruelly critique myself and I want to talk about this today because I know that I'm not alone in this.
2:14.4	It might be the number one thing that we have to work on as highly sensitive people and
2:18.6	survivors is managing this inner critic if we come from a highly dysfunctional family.
2:26.0	How this would work when I was at my most depressed was I'd work really hard to encourage myself
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