This week, we sat down with the wonderful Lisa from Walk with Lisa for a deeply insightful and refreshingly honest chat all about the inner critic. You know the voice - that one that creeps in with doubt, comparison, or harsh judgement.
Lisa generously shared her take on this inner voice, and spoiler alert: it’s not just one critic we’re dealing with (sorry, friends) - it’s many!
But before you brace yourself, Lisa brings a beautifully compassionate perspective to this truth. Even though the tone of our inner critics can be far from kind, they’ve been doing an important job: trying to protect us.
Through her own personal healing journey, Lisa has learned how to build a respectful relationship with these parts of herself. Instead of letting the critic take the wheel, she’s found a way to keep it in the backseat - acknowledging its presence, but not giving it control.
It’s a gentle, grounded take on something we all deal with, and her way of explaining it makes so much sense.
As always, we brought it back to our core theme - saying yes to yourself. Because the truth is, our inner critic often pipes up when we want to say yes to things that feel joyful, creative, or just for us - like singing, painting, writing, or trying something new.
That’s where we stop ourselves, judge ourselves, or abandon the fun altogether.
This conversation is a beautiful reminder that we don’t have to be good at something to enjoy it - and that saying yes to what lights us up is reason enough.
Thank you Lisa, for this epic conversation!
You can find Lisa and her beautiful work here:
https://www.walkwithlisa.com.au/courses
Until next time,
Nat and Mel xxoo
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