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How Standing Up for Yourself Helps You Fight Depression

…of us experience low self-esteem and are familiar with the commentary of a critical inner voice, for those who are depressed, this critical inner voice can have a powerful, debilitating influence on their state of mind. The critical inner voice can cause people to dwell on perceived problems or sorrows. It can also make it even more difficult to take actions that would help individuals emerge from a depressive state. This voice is often critical a…

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Is Fear of Emotion Driving Our Addiction?

…be diving into in the Webinar, “Fighting Addiction: The Sneaky Role of the Critical Inner Voice.” Voice Therapy, developed by my father, is helpful in the treatment of addiction, as it allows us to become conscious of this destructive thought process and face the underlying emotion behind it. Through the steps of Voice Therapy, we can start to understand where our critical inner voice comes from and how it operates. We can start to feel for oursel…

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How to Be Confident

…ything right. Why try? You will fail!” Whether whispering or shouting, the critical inner voice has one goal, which is to reinforce old, critical ways we have of seeing ourselves that hurt us but feel familiar, as if they’re part of our identity. As Dr. Firestone put it in his blog “How to Befriend Yourself:” The enemy within can be thought of as a negative identity. This negative identity is a byproduct of negative ways you were labeled as a chil…

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How to Become Your Best Self

…to seriously self-destructive behavior. This negative side, as well as its critical, angry point of view, is referred to as The Critical Inner Voice because it is the part of you that is turned against your real self. It encourages and strongly influences self-defeating and self-destructive behavior and promotes angry or hurtful attitudes toward other people as well. Depending on which part of your personality is more prominent at the time, The Re…

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Why We Should Talk About Sex

…feel that way in a sexual encounter. These expectations are fueled by the critical inner voice and can lead people to feel self-conscious, insecure or disconnected when being physically affectionate. Many people can also be critical of their appearance, viewing themselves as too old/fat/unattractive/uncomfortable for sex. With all its input, your inner critic can negatively influence your sexual relationships and eventually prove the false notion…

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Are You Feeling Insecure?

…core beliefs a child adopts go on to form an inner dialogue known as the “critical inner voice.” This “voice” becomes a running commentary throughout a person’s life, perpetuating most of their insecurity. As we move through different stages of life, we experience ourselves through this filter. The critical inner voice attaches itself to certain negative characteristics that fit with an early image we had of ourselves. When we’re looking for a re…

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How’s That Working for You?

…. One of the most effective ways to do this, I’ve found, is to take on our critical inner voice attacks, a process I’ve described in other blogs as well as in the book Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice. The next step is to take a different action. If a “voice” tells us, “You should be working all the time,” we could plan a weekend unplugged from work. If it insists, “You need to take care of your partner. It’s up to you to fix them,” we may want t…

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Three Questions That Could Change Your Relationship With Food

…ing this anxiety and guilt (along with self-doubt and self-hatred) is our “critical inner voice.” The critical inner voice is like a cruel coach inside our heads that reinforces and elaborates on destructive thoughts and attitudes we’ve internalized throughout our lives. This inner critic can get very focused on what we eat and how we nourish ourselves. “You can’t eat that. What’s wrong with you? You’re out of control. You’re so gross,” or, altern…

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Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice: An Adjunct to Clinical Practice

…Robert Firestone often refers to this internal enemy as an “anti-self” or “critical inner voice.” Learning to deal effectively with the “critical inner voice” is central to all areas of life: personal development, healthy relationships, self-esteem, and career success. This CE Webinar provides participants with an introduction to Voice Therapy, a technique that can enhance the therapist’s ability to achieve positive treatment outcomes for their cl…

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As Iraq Ends, a New Battle with PTSD Begins

…hinking Traps” are an example of what Dr. Robert Firestone would call the “critical inner voice.” The critical inner voice is an inner-dialogue of thoughts that are destructive toward ourselves and others. These “voices” not only tell us things that damage our confidence and sense of self, they also feed us negative information about the world around us. All of us are plagued by this critical inner-voice, and when people suffer from PTSD they are…

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