Coaching practices for Inner Voices

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• There are all these voices in me
• There’s a voice in my head that won’t stop telling me I’m not enough and I’m selfish, and the harder I try to shut it up the louder it gets
• One part of me wants out, another part won’t let me, and they just war with each other on a loop
• There’s this voice in my head that never shuts up
• The voice in my head feels like just me

Practices that may help

1. Take an initial inventory of your parts
   Name the recurring inner voices, emotions, and reactions — one per part — without judgment.
   IFS Parts Mapping, Made Practical
2. The inner critic dialogue
   Give the inner critic a voice on paper and then respond — the goal is dialogue, not silencing.
   Shadow Work
3. Working with Multiple Selves (Chair Work in CFT)
   Give voice to different internal parts — the critic, the anxious self, the compassionate self — to understand and change the dialogue.
   Compassion-Focused Therapy: Calming the Inner Critic
4. Noticing the inner voice
   Recognize the constant mental narrator — and the fact that you are the one hearing it.
   The Untethered Soul, In Practice
5. Name and externalize the inner critic
   Give the critic a name and treat it as a character, not the truth about you.
   Working With Your Inner Critic
6. Identifying your parts
   Notice the distinct inner voices and reactions as separate "parts," each with its own agenda.
   Internal Family Systems (IFS), Made Practical
7. Identify your Self 1 interference in real time
   Notice when your inner critic is instructing, judging, or catastrophizing — and name it as Self 1.
   The Inner Game: Quieting Self 1
8. Developing the Compassionate Self Voice
   Build an inner voice that responds to your suffering with wisdom, warmth, and commitment to wellbeing.
   Compassion-Focused Therapy: Calming the Inner Critic
9. Quieting the commentary track
   Notice the layer of continuous inner commentary on experience and practise resting in the experience itself.
   Pu: Taoist Simplicity and the Uncarved Block
10. Watching the thinker
    Observe your own thoughts as a witness, instead of being lost inside them.
    The Power of Now, In Practice

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