Healing The Inner Critic - Insight Timer Live

In this recording of an Insight Timer live event from July 2021, Catherine explains the origin of our inner critic, and shares how we can move from ruthless self-judgment to loving self-acceptance. She then guides a gentle and trauma-informed shadow work practice that recognizes and heals your inner critic, softening its grasp and leading you to wholeness. The inner critic was a brilliant adaptive strategy to keep us safe growing up, and as adults on a healing path, we get to choose freedom.

Reviews

Thanks for the lovely meditation 🧘‍♀️ I will repeat 🔁

So beautiful and insightful, as always. My inner critic was quite small, hunched forward, red eyes, angry and sad at the same time. Beneath it a lot of powerlessness. It just wanted me to hold their hand 😪 So beautiful ❤️

Great shadow work session, much needed, thank you for your expertise and your vulnerability! Wonderful teacher!

Oh wow, what a breakthrough. I have been trying to work with my inner critic for a so long. She's this feather covered, dark, emo looking girl with knives and blades in her hands, cuts and bruises all over her. Knives stabbed into her body. She moves like a snake, smiling brilliantly, waiting to find a place to poke me from. She's never spoken to me and the breakthrough was the permission that you gave for her to not know what she wanted, as soon as I validated that, she turned around and gestured for me to remove the knives from her. I removed them all, and healed her cuts, combed her hair and just gentle massaged her hands and legs. All she wanted to do was lie down on my lap and sleep after that, she cried, howled and slowly calmed down. I'll keep working with her and using this meditation and she said, she doesn't want to be alone. 🥺

Thank you, Catherine! As usual, powerful food for thoughts (and feelings 😊!) 💙💙💙