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Elizabeth Cush on Critical Parts
If your inner critical voice heaps on the shame every time you make a mistake, this episode of Woman Worriers is for you. Host Elizabeth Cush talks about learning how to understand and embrace your critical parts so you can lead a fully authentic life.
“As I learned to hold firmer to my boundaries and speak to myself in a more compassionate way, that critical voice has quieted.”
Show Notes:
What’s holding you back? Could it be that inner voice that tells you it’s not safe? That people won’t like it? That you’ll fail? That you’ve made—or are about to make—a big mistake? Instead of trying to shut it out, have you ever thought about asking that part of you what it really wants you to know? Or what it needs? In this week’s episode of the Woman Worriers podcast, host Elizabeth Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., and a mid-life women’s life coach, expands on recent conversations she’s had with Michelle Glass and Kristin Neff about recognizing all our parts and their worth to us and meeting them with self-compassion and love and acceptance, as a way to live our lives more authentically and fully. She focuses on those parts, like the inner critic, that are more difficult to embrace, sharing how her critical part shows up in her life and how she has developed a different relationship with it. She also offers a guided meditation to help you tune into your body and listening to your parts in a different way.
Listen and learn:
What it means to live authentically—and why we need to practice self-compassion to do so
Some of the ways your critical parts might show up in your life
The things your critical parts might be telling you that could keep you from speaking up for yourself
How our inner critic’s fears can affect our behavior and our choices
How we can learn what our inner critic needs from us so we can develop a different relationship with it
How meditation can help you connect with your parts
The kinds of questions you might ask your critical part
What’s in store for the podcast in the future
Learn More:
> Elizabeth’s coaching website
> Sign up for Elizabeth’s newsletter
>Three Invitations to Come Home to You
> Guided meditations from Progression Counseling
> Download Elizabeth’s free Meditation Guide for Worried Women
Other episodes you might enjoy
>Elizabeth Cush on Self-Compassion
>Kristen Neff on Fierce Self-Compassion
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