Radio Headspace What to Do When Your Inner Critic Won’t Stop
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Oct 24, 2025 Self-doubt has a familiar voice in all of us, often harsh and critical. The conversation tackles how to meet this inner critic with compassion through mindfulness. Techniques such as pausing, breathing, and self-reparenting are explored to soothe our inner selves. Dora reflects on childhood shame and its resurfacing in adulthood, urging listeners to identify unmet emotional needs. Listeners learn to approach themselves with kindness and courage, transforming self-care into a growth opportunity.
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Realizing You Can Comfort Yourself
- Dora recalls comforting a friend and realizing those words were for her younger self too.
- She describes soothing herself during a workplace mistake by pausing, breathing, and saying comforting words.
Healing Often Looks Quiet
- Healing can be quiet and gradual rather than dramatic and sudden.
- Self-parenting means becoming the calm, steady presence your younger self needed.
Self-Parenting Reframes Healing
- Self-parenting focuses on nurturing parts of us that are still healing rather than blaming the past.
- It reframes healing as active care you can provide to yourself now.