How To Silence Your Inner Critic / Start

Welcome – and a Warning

Hello, and thank you for signing up to How To Silence Your Inner Critic.

Over the next few days, we’ll look at ways to think afresh about your Inner Critic.

But I wanted to start by introducing myself. You’ve seen a bit of me already, in clips of the talk I gave at a big commercial law firm.

Here are two of the drawings you may have glimpsed in the video. I drew them both immediately after my first group therapy session.

I’m on the right, sobbing.

This next one is the image on the T-shirt I’m wearing in the video. It shows me feeling stunned and slightly relieved after that session finished. (Sobbing is very tiring.)

Again, I drew it at the time.

One of the most important things I learned in hospital is that even the worst feelings will pass.

(They may come back, but they’ll pass again.)

This course may possibly bring up strong feelings. If it does, please take it easy.

If you can, call someone or text them. Say you’re having a bit of a moment.

That act of reaching out is usually enough on its own – whether or not anybody answers.

Thanks for reading, and for being here.

If you’d like to watch a bit more about what took me into hospital – it gives a sense of how powerful my inner critic was at the time – you can watch it here.

As I said at the start of the recorded talk, take what you like and leave the rest.

JPF

PS. I’ll email you with the next lesson shortly.

It might be a good idea to check your spam. And when you find my email, add my address to your contacts, so the next messages don’t get lost.