I wish it was looking directly at me so that I could feel like I’m confronting it
Somewhat. I wish I could see the face
A bit scary
It did - I can now picture the inner critic in my mind and can see how this could help build a path to silence my inner critic
It looked nothing like me, but I think that’s the point. It’s just taking one small sliver of my mind, and blowing it out of proportion. Focusing on the negatives always.
I learned what it looks like and the things it says, like “you’re not going to make it”, “you’ll fail”. I also learned how it makes me feel: tension and pressure in my throat and chest.
The picture didn’t resonate with me much, but the feeling described in the exercise did. I’m anxious and focused more on the moments ahead than the one I’m in, I know my faults and know my potential to fail, so I do
It did resonate with me as that’s exactly how I feel when my inner critic speaks to me, a feeling of worry and anxiety and greyness
I worried over unnecessary issues anxiety won’t go away
I did not resonate with the picture. It definitely made me realize it’s a version of me who is disappointed and critiques me a lot
Hesitant and scared.
Not seeing the face of the figure helped me realise my inner critic was never me to begin with. It was rather a figure that resembled me and represented my past failures and proceeded to push those failures onto future events
I learned he may be trying to protect me but in reality he is getting in my way, I need to silence him to become who I am supposed to be
I think I picture my inner critic more like a character in Inside Out. Just doing its job. I have been emotionally hurt. Sex used as a weapon to make me feel insecure. It’s just doing its job. Protecting me, but it’s time for it to take the day off and trust me. I have been doing the work to be better and feel better and now it’s just holding me back.
My inner critic is evasive. He’s there when you don’t need him to be, and almost always shows up when I have a certain thought of anything sexual.
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My inner critic is always challenging my decisions, making me question if what I’m doing is right or wrong. He forces me to keep my guard up all the time. He thinks he’s protecting me but he’s only making harder to live in my day to day life.
My critic is always on the defensive. Any time I have a positive thought, he tells me the “But.” It’s tough to pin down because it’s so baked into my thought processes.
My inner critic makes me feel like everything I do, or choice I make is wrong
It shows me extremely defeated which is usually how I feel
My inner critic is challenging my decisions making me question myself. He stresses me out and makes me anxious. I know he is trying to help but he is getting in my way and preventing me from being my best self.