Seth Meyers: Denise, you suggest mindfulness techniques to help silence the inner critic's voice. Can you go into some like maybe techniques, mindfulness, that you've personally found helpful? Yes, actually. So I feel like the biggest mindful and kind of biggest and easiest mindful tech mindfulness technique is the practice of realizing that your thoughts are not you, that they are your thoughts. Just because you're thinking your thoughts doesn't mean that they're true. It's just what you're feeling in the moment.
Denise Jacobs teaches us how to banish our inner critic. She motivates us to realize what we’re capable of creatively. She encourages us to overcome the fear of the unknown by turning that fear into curiosity. She also guides us into how to ask for feedback in a way that’s healthy and beneficial to us.
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