Hello, dear listeners, and welcome to Inner Work, a Spiritual Growth podcast.

I'm your host, Josephine, a second-generation intuitive healer, an English PhD, who taught college

for nine years before transitioning to spiritual work full-time.

I now specialize in helping type A and highly sensitive women, including empaths,

let go of perfectionism, release shame, and transform their inner critics into inner allies.

To find out more or join the tribe, visit www.purefieldhealing.com or contact me directly at purefieldhealing at gmail.com. As always, those

links will be in the show notes. And now, on to the show.

Hello, dear listener, and welcome to a new episode of Inner Work.

I have to start with an important announcement, and that is that if you've been listening

to this podcast for a while and you've gotten some value out of it, I would be so, so grateful

if you could leave a rating or a review or both on iTunes.

This helps the podcast be found and heard by other people.

And it's a totally free thing that you can do to support this project.

It should not take longer than a few minutes, but it really does make a difference.

I would be eternally grateful. So thank you so much if you have

already left a rating or a review. And if you feel in your heart that you are called to do so,

then I would be so so grateful and so appreciative. Okay, so with that said, today we are

diving into the topic of dealing with negative criticism.

And as I promise in the title to this episode, I am including a personal anecdote because it often

happens that I'm inspired by my own life to come up with topics for this podcast, and this episode is no different.

So let's start with the anecdote of this thing that recently happened to me.

That kind of really shook me, really unsettled me, and we're going to use that story to jump

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