Feeling Insecure? 6 Tips To Quiet Your Inner Critic
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Feeling Insecure? 6 Tips To Quiet Your Inner Critic

NPR  

6 Tips To Quiet Your Inner Critic Enlarge this image toggle caption Tara Moore/Getty Images Tara Moore/Getty Images You have a voice inside your head. "That voice is there for all of us — obviously in varying degrees," says psychologist and author Andrea Bonior. "It's that problem-solving voice that says, 'You will belong if you are special, and you'll be cast out if you're not,' " says Hayes, whose new book, A Liberated Mind, aims to help people learn to defuse these thoughts. Call it your unreliable narrator, your negative Nelly or your worry blob — "I've seen all kinds of labels," says Bonior. Once you've identified them, take the thoughts — "I'm not good enough," "They're never going to like me," etc.

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