Coaching practices for Label the Critical Voice

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

• While I’m actually performing there’s this running commentary telling me I’m blowing it, and I take every word of it as fact in the moment
• There’s a voice that trashes whatever I’m making before it even exists
• 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
• The voice in my head feels like just me
• There are all these voices in me

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Name and disarm the inner critic
   Give the critical voice a name and recognize it as a character, not the truth.
   The Artist’s Way, Made Practical
3. The inner critic dialogue
   Give the inner critic a voice on paper and then respond — the goal is dialogue, not silencing.
   Shadow Work
4. 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
5. 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
6. Replace harsh self-criticism with compassionate self-enquiry
   When the inner critic fires, respond with curious investigation rather than more demands.
   Radical Openness: The RO-DBT Approach to Overcontrol and Loneliness
7. Noticing the inner voice
   Recognize the constant mental narrator — and the fact that you are the one hearing it.
   The Untethered Soul, In Practice
8. 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
9. 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
10. Affirm before receiving critical feedback
    Do a brief values reflection before reading a critical evaluation so you can take in the information rather than defend against it.
    Self-Affirmation Theory, Made Practical

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