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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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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As a therapist, I work with a lot of people who struggle with compulsive eating and body image issues.   Many of my clients have been on many different diets, and have lost the same 10, 30, 50 lbs. over and over again.

We are a culture that is obsessed with appearance, and many people set out to lose weight so that they can look better.  The diet industry is a $60 billion per year industry because it targets emphasis on food and weight as the problem.  As a result, millions of people are literally at war with themselves, struggling to deal with their food compulsions, beating themselves up on a daily basis for “having no willpower.”  It is this ongoing war, strengthened by images in the media and cultural messages, that produces a culture of self-loathing people.  

For most, the belief behind the war is “once I am thinner, I will feel the way that I want to feel about myself and my life.”  What most people fail to recognize...