The Inner Critic Advantage: Making Peace With the Noise in Your Head<\/a><\/em> by Andrea Patten is now available on Amazon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Are you still trying to decide how to shut the door on\u00a0your Inner Critic? \u00a0Have you figured out what to do with that noisy Inner Editor? \u00a0How to manage a\u00a0Monkey Mind?\u00a0Perhaps you have learned how to love your Inner Critic. Maybe you’re looking for a way to break up with it, once and for all. [Tweet “Have you shut the door on your #InnerCritic?”] These are all valid ways to deal with that confidence-sapping, pain-in-the-butt, voice-in-the-head. I’ve been fortunate to hear about lots of Inner Critics and almost as many\u00a0strategies for helping them pipe\u00a0down.\u00a0However you’d like to address it, a little creative visualization can go a long way. [Tweet “Have you learned how to love your #InnerCritic?”] Most people tell me they picture an Inner Critic creating a disturbance somewhere near their core, often near the heart or at the center of their\u00a0thinking. With good\u00a0creative visualization skills there’s a simple strategy\u00a0you can try: just move her somewhere else. Put an arm around your Inner Editor\u00a0and walk her out the door. Open a\u00a0window and ask her to show you how she can fly. Invite her to take a seat on your porch swing. Move her (and all of her belongings) into a guest room or a closet. Once you can picture the Inner Critic starting to move, there’s another step you can take with your visualization: shut the door. \u00a0If you need a tangible reminder, find a beautiful antique key to add to your key ring or a tiny charm to put on a chain around your neck. If you are to\u00a0make progress in your relationship with your Inner Critic it doesn’t hurt to remember: YOU hold the key. ## Better still, why get rid of your Inner Critic when you can learn to use it to your benefit? The Inner Critic Advantage: Making Peace With the Noise in Your Head by Andrea Patten is now available on Amazon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,4,6],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e","category-happiness","category-inner-critic-2","category-self-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9304"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=9304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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