In this Episode of the Dethroning Your Inner Critic Podcast, Joanna delves into what struggling truly is, and how to manage suffering in struggling. She explains the roots of struggle, the history of seeking out danger, and more!

Here is this week’s reflection question:

• What are your favorite flavors of suffering (for you)?

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Every day we make choices on how to feel about everything. When we wake up we can decide we are happy about it or upset by it but it is only our thoughts about it that makes it so. For example, I know a lot of people who hate Monday’s but “Karen” thinks of it as just another day. Allowing herself to be upset by a day of the week does not make sense to her so when Monday rolls around she’s the only one in the office who is cheerful.

You can apply this to your relationships too. Living from the narrow and distorted view of your Inner Critic in your romantic relationship will have you looking for what’s wrong, broken and isn’t working rather than what’s right, good and already working. You have to make the conscious choice to kick your inner critic to the curb...or at least the couch.

How can you become the driver in your relationship again?

There are four common ways your Inner Critic is sabotaging your relationships. I want to...

It is not uncommon to hear people describe their relationship as a thing.  You might label your relationship as “good” or “bad”. You might say, “my relationship is boring” or might label it as exciting.  

Here’s what you need to realize: Your relationship is not a thing.

There is no such thing as a relationship. Instead, we’re interconnected in a million different ways with those we care about. When you focus more on how you exist in connection with your loved ones, you stop labeling and start improving the quality of those connections. You realize your “relationship” is nothing more than a series of interactions.

Here are three ways that you can improve your interactions today:

1. Choose your actions like you choose what to wear to an important event.

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What happens when you get stuck in confusion? When you are just uncertain about what is going on in your life, what is actually going on? This might surprise you, but it comes down to fear and your Inner Critic trying to suppress your emotions. Tune in to this week’s episode of the Dethroning Your Inner Critic Podcast to hear Joanna’s take on your Inner Critic Making you go dumb:

Here are this week’s reflection questions:

• Where are you stuck in confusion, or the “I don’t know” in your life?
• What feelings come up for you around making decisions: past, present, and future?
• What’s the next decision that you’re going to make?
• Those emotions that you don’t want to feel: where is that emotion in your body?

In this episode of the Dethroning Your Inner Critic Podcast, Joanna talks about self awareness, your interpretation, and actual reality. She comments on how people interpret the world, and gives you a new perspective on how to improve the quality of your life.

Here is this week’s reflection question:

• Where does your mind go when you feel sad or guilty or angry or anxious?

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On this week’s episode of the Dethroning Your Inner Critic Podcast, Joanna talks about how to rewire your automatic thoughts that affect your automatic reactions regarding relationships. She talks about how your Inner Critic takes control of your emotions to make you feel like a victim in relationships.

Here are this week’s reflection questions:

• Where is your Inner Critic hiding in your relationships with others?
• What’s the impact of your Inner Critic’s messages on your current relationships with the people who matter the most to you?
• What expectations of your Inner Critic are you currently listening to?

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We aren’t taught how to do relationships. In fact, there’s an unspoken belief that we should just know how to do relationships. In this week’s episode of the Dethroning Your Inner Critic Podcast, Joanna talks in-depth about how your Inner Critic can affect your relationships with others.

Your Inner Critic can wreak havoc by trying to control how someone else acts towards you, and making them responsible towards how you feel. That’s a lot of power to give to someone else! In reality, your thoughts are the only true things that can affect your emotions. That’s why you need to check what your Inner Critic is saying about how others are acting.

Here is this week’s reflection question:

• Where is the vicious cycle where your Inner Critic causes you to take your love away, showing up in your life?

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This week on The Dethroning Your Inner Critic Podcast, Joanna is talking about people pleasing: what it means, why it happens, and how to talk to the people pleaser in yourself to take back control. People pleasing is a huge operating tactic for the Inner Critic, she latches on to the thoughts you may have about upsetting someone and uses those thoughts to control your interactions with others. To transform your life, it’s imperative that you become intimately familiar with these old, automatic, conditioned thoughts that come from your Inner Critic.

Here are this week’s reflection questions:

• What is the voice inside your head truly saying when you say “yes” to something that you don’t want to do?
• When was that time in your childhood when your Inner Critic latched on to your feelings of unworthiness?
• What can you do today to recognize when these conditioned thoughts from your Inner Critic are appearing?

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If you’re anything like me, you love to hate your to-do list. There are moments it feels like you’ll never get it all done but it feels so great to check things off the list. But then pretty soon you find yourself so addicted to the high of checking things off the list that you start feeling awful when life happens and you still have things left on the list at the end of the day.

You’ve been there too, right?

Let’s face it--when we accomplish something good, we feel good. It’s a bonus that people start noticing that we’re super productive and give us lots of positive feedback. Your boss starts to notice your hard work. Your friends notice that you managed to make cupcakes for your child’s birthday, chaperone their field trip, and manage to lose five pounds on your new diet.

But what are you sacrificing in the process?

Eventually, you enter a bottomless pit where you’re always looking to accomplish more and more in order to feel...

Having an extraordinary life begins with understanding you are separate from the voice in your head telling you that you’re not enough. We are NOT what we accomplish in our lives or our dress size. When you learn to identify your Inner Critic, you can use these feelings as a way to discover your authentic self.

Here are this week’s reflection questions:

• What is the voice in your head saying about how you should feel about yourself?
• How is your self-worth wrapped up in the shape of your body?
• Where can you lean into your discomfort today?

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