Soften your inner critic.

A meditation practice to speak more kindly to yourself.

WELL HELLO THERE, my loves. It’s Monday.

First up, I’m trucking along on the book draft. Would be SO grateful to see your name on the pre-order waitlist, here. <3

Second, this means that I am VERY hyper aware of my own inner critic these days. I waiver between glorious revelry in my own creative genius and then the complete brink of giving up completely (“who do I think I am?!? does this even make any sense?! wow, I should just give up and bury my head in the sand! kthnxbye!”). So leads me to today’s topic & meditation — meditation being the only thing that allows me to SURF these varying waves of my inner dialogue, instead of getting pummeled completely by them.

Third, I’m going to PLAY around a little bit on this format of the Substack, so if you have a thought, reaction, comment — basically, do we like video? Should we try more audio? or do you only want to read here? hmmm. These are the questions!

TLDR; meditation can help us soften our inner critic. We can use our meditation as a place to practice cultivation self-compassion and more kindness toward ourselves.

And if we were literally sitting together IRL, here’s what I’d tell you about that 👇

And we can talk about these things all we want, but the beauty of practice is that we get to BECOME what we practice.

Reflect :: Where are you hard on yourself today? What stories are you telling yourself that might not be true? Where can you soften the edge of your own inner critic?

Meditate :: A 7-minute guided meditation to practice this softening of the inner critic 👇