Tame Your Inner Critic

Release Negative Self-Talk and Gain the Happiness You Deserve Uncover the authentic you, control the critic within, and find the peace you need to live your life on purpose. Learn to silence the persistent chatter of your inner critic and replace it with the voice of your inner guidance, your spirit. Tame Your Inner Critic takes you on a journey of self-discovery, exploring the energy of your thoughts and turning the negative into positive. Discover how to use your innate intuitive abilities to heal these energies and discard judgments and criticisms that have built up over the years. Find your true north—your own internal wisdom that is connected to the divine and gives you guidance. With specialized exercises and meditations, this book shows you how to banish negativity, improve your relationships, and realize new ways to share your gifts with the world around you.

Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us to discover what matters most. Life and death are a package deal. They cannot be pulled apart and we cannot truly live unless we are aware of death. The Five Invitations is an exhilarating meditation on the meaning of life and how maintaining an ever-present consciousness of death can bring us closer to our truest selves. As a renowned teacher of compassionate caregiving and the cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, Frank Ostaseski has sat on the precipice of death with more than a thousand people. In The Five Invitations, he distills the lessons gleaned over the course of his career, offering an evocative and stirring guide that points to a radical path to transformation. The Five Invitations: -Don’t Wait -Welcome Everything, Push Away Nothing -Bring Your Whole Self to the Experience -Find a Place of Rest in the Middle of Things -Cultivate Don’t Know Mind These Five Invitations show us how to wake up fully to our lives. They can be understood as best practices for anyone coping with loss or navigating any sort of transition or crisis; they guide us toward appreciating life’s preciousness. Awareness of death can be a valuable companion on the road to living well, forging a rich and meaningful life, and letting go of regret. The Five Invitations is a powerful and inspiring exploration of the essential wisdom dying has to impart to all of us.

How many times have you wanted to do something that you knew would be fun, thrilling, exciting, fulfilling or even life-changing? You're revved up and ready to go. It's time for action, you're excited and then your inner critic shows up. Suddenly you're full of self-doubt and fear where before was excitement.I will take you on a journey, where you'll look at your story and understand where your inner critic came from and how it prevents you from performing at your best. In this book, I'll teach you how to tame your inner critic and be the person you were always meant to be.

Even if you call it by a different name, you need no introduction to your inner critic. Our inner critic seems to know exactly what to say and when to say it for maximum effect. It's a master of the psychological KO, leaving us feeling like the smallest, most flawed, most disempowered version of ourselves. You’ve tried everything to tame your inner critic: ignoring it, calling names and telling it to shut up. But none of those approaches have worked. Now, it’s time to stop fighting yourself. In The Power of Self-Kindness: How to Transform Your Relationship With Your Inner Critic, you’ll discover a radical approach to healing your relationship with your inner critic and yourself, one based on understanding, self-acceptance and self-compassion. Using a combination of theory, insight and reflective practices, you’ll learn where your critic comes from and how to look beyond its destructive words to uncover the real message underneath. You’ll develop techniques that will help you question your critic’s stories and become more mindful of how these stories impact your life. You’ll also learn how to turn up the volume on the inner critic’s positive counterpart - the inner mentor - a wise inner guiding light invested in your growth and wellbeing. Whether you’ve been struggling with your inner critic for a long time or are at the beginning of your self-kindness journey, this book offers a range of approaches and suggestions you can use to mend the most important relationship in your life: the one with yourself.

Start Living Your Life on Purpose Most of us have little trouble being open-hearted and giving of spirit to our friends and loved ones. What's much harder is seeing those same qualities within ourselves; being as kind and compassionate to ourselves as we are to the people in our lives. If you recognize the desire to move away from the negative self-talk, to learn to nurture and care for your Spirit, then take the next step toward loving yourself inside and out. Tame Your Inner Critic: The Workbook, is just that - a companion guide to Della Temple's Tame Your Inner Critic, Find Peace and Contentment to Live Your Life on Purpose (Llewellyn, 2015). But it is more than just an exercise book. It is your diary, your journal, your best friend, and a lifeline to your internal wisdom, as you journey toward uncovering your life's purpose. Interspersed among the suggested exercises and meditations are a few thought-provoking questions, urging you to dig deep into the recesses of your internal wisdom. You will learn to fill yourself with your true power, finding peace and contentment as you discover the gift you are meant to share with the world. You will refine ways to set your attitude, consciously choose your thoughts and feelings, and stay grounded alongside other people's energies. By journey's end, you will have discovered your true north-your life's purpose and ways to share this gift with the world.

We all have an inner voice. You know what I mean: It's that voice within us all, and boy, does it like to talk. Now, if you could take that voice and imagine it's the voice of a separate person who follows you around and talks to you all day, what would it say? If you're like most folks, it would deliver a motley mouthful. That voice sizes up the present, anticipates the future, and examines the past. It evaluates other people and the surrounding circumstances. But it also has a flair for zooming inward, making oneself the focus. And when it does, what approach does it take? It might be celebratory, offering a well-deserved pat on the back, or it could be soothing, encouraging, forgiving, understanding, or inspiring. But it can also be fault-finding, disapproving, and hurtful, even mercilessly so. What can be especially tough to resist about the self-critic is that it can masquerade as reality. A self-attacking thought that really seems to be a painful reflection of the truth is far more persuasive than a thought that clearly doesn't map onto the way things are at all. So in this book TAMING YOUR INNER CRITIC, we're going to take a look at that self-critical voice to try to shed some light on what forms it takes, what function it serves, the consequences it can have, and whether there are alternative ways to talk to ourselves.

In this life-changing book, writer and spiritual coach, Neal Allen, teaches us a stunning new method for quieting the inner critic. "Better Days will help you get to know your inner critic, and quiet its yammering, and in so doing, get to know the person you were born to be." - Anne Lamott What if your superego has it wrong? That snarky little bully in your head...you know the one. You've lived under its weight for decades. I'm a fraud, I'm lazy I need to work harder I need to be tougher, funnier, calmer... I need to stay quiet, look pretty, stop showing off I need to put others before me, I need to put myself first I need to be perfect I need to hide who I really am Sound familiar? You know that its scolding voice is harmful to you, but you can't will it away. You accept a life with short periods of peace and long stretches of stress and anxiety. But you don't have to. In this revolutionary new book, Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic, writer and spiritual coach, Neal Allen, examines a critical aspect of the human psyche that often gets ignored - the superego. Building on Freud's idea that the superego necessarily forms a person's moral conscience, Neal explains how this voice in your head develops in childhood as a survival mechanism, but when no longer needed for protection, camps out in your mind like a personal parasite. A parasite that doesn't belong. Through simple and engaging exercises and explorations, Neal leads you into meeting, confronting, and ultimately quieting your own inner critic. By shedding off the burden of the superego, you can overcome tired patterns of reward and punishment, reduce the self-talk that harms you, and ultimately clear an open space for the life you deserve, one that is gentler and more peaceful. Just imagine...if all that nasty, negative chatter in your head just evaporated ... what would you do next? Better days are just ahead.

"Becalming: Dare to Tame Your Inner Critic" is a revolutionary 30-day guided journal that helps women understand and overcome the harsh inner critic that holds them back. Written by a woman for women, this journal delves deep into the connection between the nervous system and the inner critic. It shows you how a state of high-alert can amplify the inner critic's voice, making it meaner and louder. With targeted healing exercises designed to quickly and easily interrupt a stress response, this journal takes a holistic approach to personal growth by addressing both the physical and emotional aspects of inner dialogue. Each day begins with a thought-provoking journal prompt, followed by exercises that will help you interrupt your stress response, and approach the inner dialogue from a more compassionate place. With "Becalming", you will learn how to quiet your inner critic, and gain the courage and confidence to love yourself the way you deserve to be loved.