Coaching practices for One Look at What Everyone Else is Doing and the Voice in My Head Turns Vicious You've Wasted Your Life You're Behind You're Nothing and I'd Never Speak to Anyone I Love That Way but I Let it Tear Into Me

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• One look at what everyone else is doing and the voice in my head turns vicious
• The voice in my head feels like just me
• I scroll and instantly feel behind everyone
• I’d never speak to anyone else the way I speak to myself
• The voice in my head never shuts up

Practices that may help

1. Apply self-compassion when comparison creates self-criticism
   When comparison activates self-criticism, meet it with the response you would give a close friend.
   Social Comparison Online: What the Research Actually Shows
2. 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
3. Let go of comparison
   Stop measuring your worth against others — comparison fits in by being the same and standing out at once.
   The Gifts of Imperfection, Made Practical
4. Replace critic monologue with compassionate self-talk
   Speak to yourself the way you would speak to a close friend in the same situation.
   Working With Your Inner Critic
5. Watching the thinker
   Observe your own thoughts as a witness, instead of being lost inside them.
   The Power of Now, In Practice
6. Ahimsa toward the self: replacing self-attack with self-compassion
   Treat yourself after a failure the way you would treat a good friend in the same situation.
   Ahimsa: Non-Violence as a Daily Practice
7. Invoke common humanity in a moment of shame
   When you feel like a uniquely pathetic failure, remind yourself this is shared human experience.
   Working With Your Inner Critic
8. Identifying your parts
   Notice the distinct inner voices and reactions as separate "parts," each with its own agenda.
   Internal Family Systems (IFS), Made Practical
9. 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
10. Noticing the inner voice
    Recognize the constant mental narrator — and the fact that you are the one hearing it.
    The Untethered Soul, In Practice

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