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Old Mar 18, 2017, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Trace14 View Post
Well tell her to settle down Maybe find out why she wants to be that way. It gets confusing to me when we talk about inner critic and inner child issues. Makes us seem so much more complicated than we know. Though I'm sure a lot of research has gone into these issues. I guess I'm stuck in the black and white thinking in that it's either this or this, no more no less.
I see a lot of validity in the concept of the inner-critic. When I get really stressed out or make a mistake and get really self-critical, I could imagine the voice was my father's voice, and it's almost a word for word match of what my father used to say. It's eerie in some ways.
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