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Help! My Inner Critic Sounds Like My Ex
Coping mechanisms to silence the inner voice that holds you back
It’s not easy to be always positive about yourself. In fact, if you’re anything like me, it can be at times difficult to keep up the good vibes. Especially if you have a tendency to be the one who is holding you back from accomplishing your dreams.
We can call it imposter syndrome or low (alternating) self-esteem, or we can call it our inner critic. Whatever label we use to define the inner voice that scolds us, it happens even to the best of us that even though the world is cheering us and acknowledges our achievements, we still have doubts. We still self-sabotage and procrastinate and we doubt ourselves in issues where no one else has any doubts when it comes to us.
One of the best illustrations about how imposter syndrome happens to all of us is a story told by Neil Gaiman, meeting another Neil…
“Some years ago, I was lucky enough invited to a gathering of great and good people: artists and scientists, writers and discoverers of things. And I felt that at any moment they would realise that I didn’t qualify to be there, among these people who had really done things.
On my second or third night there, I was standing at the back of the hall, while a musical…
