Coaching - Never Argue With Your Client's Inner Critic

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Don't coach your client's saboteur voice, coach the client. Never be arguing with someone's inner critic and I would say that includes your spouse's inner critic. Your teens inner critic is a really common hit fall for parents who feel like their job is to build up an insecure teen by arguing with the teens inner critic. Instead you want to kind of go to the meta level and say okay it sounds like there's some self doubt here,. There's some fear here, some tools to deal with those things. What would it be like to do this even not feeling ready? How can we test if these self doubts are true?

Tara Mohr: Playing Big Tara Mohr is an expert on women’s leadership and well-being. She 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. Tara is the creator and teacher of the global Playing Big leadership program for women, and of the Playing Big Facilitators Training for coaches, therapists, managers, and mentors. Your worst critic is probably yourself. In this conversation, Tara joins Dave to show you how to tame your inner critic. Actions to overcome your inner critic Write down your inner critic’s most commonly voiced lines. Create a character that suits your inner critic’s voice, and then picture it when you hear the voice. Look at the voice with compassion, trying to understand what your safety instinct is afraid of. Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.