"Your inner critic is an expression of, a manifestation of your safety instinct," she says. "If we argue with it, it just keeps coming up with a new line,. It'll just try and keep us distracted in the argument." She suggests getting familiar enough to recognize its voice so you know when it's talking - which is really hard.
Tara Mohr is an expert on women’s leadership and well-being. She helps women play bigger in sharing their voices and bringing forward their ideas in work and in life. Tara is the author of Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead, named a best book of the year by Apple’s iBooks and now in paperback. In the book, she shares her pioneering model for making the journey from playing small–being held back by fear and self-doubt–to playing big, taking bold action to pursue what you see as your callings.
In this “From the Archive” episode, Eric and Tara discuss strategies to deal with our inner critic and live a bigger, more meaningful life.
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Tara Mohr, and I Discuss Mindfulness in Nature and…
- Her book, Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead
- How the inner critic often shows up differently for men and women
- Learning to witness but not take direction from the inner critic
- Finding your inner mentor by visualizing your future wise self
- Asking “what am I making this mean?”
- The hiding strategies we often use
- Instead of asking if you’re ready, ask what life is asking of you right now?
- The 6 criteria of the “The Leap”
- Sustainable change is not about willpower
- Success architecture is how we set up our lives with routines to support the change we want to make
- Thinking that being hard on ourselves is the way to change behavior
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