What did you learn about your inner critic's tactics?

How was your journalling experience? Does writing things down work for you?

It helps yes

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Absolutely, while knowing I’m stronger than my critic helps most times. Writing it down and sitting with those past thoughts, good and bad, helps to solidify why the impact my appreciation for intimacy

Writing it down pulls these things out of my head and allows me to examine them

Writing these feelings down helped crystallise what actual feelings I had going on, writing about it to explain it to someone else stopped me from pulling at straws in my mind and made me think about what I actually feel

Because it spoke in my voice I had never separated myself from my inner critic before. Now that I have taken steps to recognise it. I can perceive its impact in my life.

becee really tried it before

Writing it out and having questions to help me through it helped me break it down

Writing out my inner thoughts made me admit that there was no evidence behind my insecurities, and that I’m doing this to myself.

Honestly, writing it out put too much focus on it and now it’s alive in me. Maybe avoiding it and shutting it down isn’t healthy but is giving it all my attention more healthy. Maybe it’s something I need to face and work through. Writing it down gave it a face and so now maybe I can face it better.

Writing it down helps me organize my thoughts, and really recognize how it all effects me

Writing help me understand fully why it is speaking up

The main thing I took from this exercise is that the love I have for my partner is completely separate from my own inner critic and abusive past experiences.
I’m still feeling anxious right now, but thinking about how much our love means does help me.

It helps to give it substance as something that can be controlled or overcome

Yes it helped me narrow down my emotions

Writing this down really helped me realise how critical my self critic can be

yes it helped understand how my previous experiences are impacting me!

It helped me gain some perspective on a part of myself that otherwise is hard to distinguish from my regular thoughts

It helped put the thoughts in my head into more clear descriptions which can help me be more aware of them and realize when these thoughts are having a negative impact.

Good. It feels better to put the feeling down concretely. It’s not easy to talk about even with those I care for so having a journal might be something I start up.