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

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I learned that my inner critic creates physical reactions that keep me from taking action, even where I want to. It silences me and my true desires. But because I’m aware of how it shows up, I’m hoping I can interrupt it more often.

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The prompts were great and writing down helped me clearly sort out my thoughts.

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The responses from my answers were extremely insightful and have helped me understand that I need to understand my inner critic better

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Sometimes

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It thinks it’s helping

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Journaling helps me eject thoughts from my head which stay there in a weird half formed state that impacts my nervous system but not my logical brain

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I think it helps me go through my thoughts in a structured way

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Yes, it really helps to read back and think about each thought and question the issues it raises and then makes you think how you could think about different situations or experiences differently.

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I’m in the early stages of journaling this process. I’m interested to see how it will work for me.

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I’ve never been one for journaling, but I think it’s going to help me a lot. Being able to place my ideas on paper to help organize my thoughts.

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i think journaling helps in the process of improving my sexual confidence and health. i learned more about the voice in my head that makes me feel anxious about having sex.

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I find it difficult transferring feelings to words

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Curious to know how this will work.

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Surprised to hear the inner critic is a flight or fight response and that it is trying to help me.

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I think journaling helps me put my feelings into words and pinpoint a bit more on why i feel a certain way but i dont have the reflex of journaling when i dont feel good so it’s good to have questions to push me further into my questionning

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Strangely, I’ve never thought so hard about it. Once you start writing the words do flow, so am going to stay curious

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I feel that writing out my thoughts in those few short prompts opened me up to ideas that I had been avoiding. I can already see what changes I need to make now.

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Very interesting concept in point that I recognise very readily

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Writing things down helps me to think more about my answers

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It’s nice to read other people’s live thoughts - it helps me feel not alone in this

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