Well, hello there. My name is Morgan Harper-Nichols. I'm an artist and a writer, and this is a space where I share words that I hope can make a little room for you to slow down and take a few deep breaths as you prepare for whatever lies ahead. Thanks for being here today. And now on to today's episode. I don't know about you, but I often have to deal with the voice

of my inner critic. There is an inner critic in my head who tells me that my work isn't good

enough or it's not unique enough or that

I'm taking too long to complete a task, whether it has to do with creativity or something that I'm

making or just going throughout life. I have this voice that appears in my head and tells me what I

should or should not be doing or how I'm not doing something enough.

And I'm grateful that I know enough about this inner critic that I can say,

okay, even though that kind of hurts, I can recognize that this isn't true.

Like, I'm just going to try my best to ignore it.

And a lot of times I am able to push past and just ignore it.

And I can honestly say that I'm very proud of myself for working on that.

However, I still deal with it.

It's something that even after I've achieved things in my life that I'm really proud of and that I enjoy doing,

I still have to face this inner credit.

And maybe you deal with that as well. Even when you're seeing progress in your life, you're seeing things move forward and

you're proud of how you've grown in some way, there's still this voice that creeps in sometimes

and makes you question everything. So if you've dealt with that before, I have a question that I want

you to carry with you and take this with you for the next week or so and just think about it.

Pay attention to your life and look out for this thing. So before I give you the question,

I'm just going to give you the experience that led to this question.

So I've talked about this before, but recently I started to set up my art studio in my garage.

And I'm using the word art studio very loosely because right now it's just a couple of fold-up tables and some paint and that's

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