Epi 211: When Your Inner Conversation Takes You Down…
When was the last time you listened to your inner conversation? Is it serving you, or does it take you down?
Most women struggle with their inner critic and tend to beat themselves up. Is this you? If so, there’s one essential life practice that can silence the inner critic, help you release the need to trash yourself and your worth, and is the ultimate foundation of self-love.
What is it? It’s self-empathy.
While you may be familiar with having empathy for others, turning this practice inward changes the inner conversation and opens the door to cultivating inner peace, happiness, and gives you the courage to be the woman who loves themselves fiercely.
This week we’re taking a one-on-one deep dive into the step-by-step, simple process of how to use self-empathy daily. It starts with two simple questions that have the power to silence the inner critic and change your mindset. Self-empathy is the gateway to self-love, and this conversation helps you in the throes of radical change.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
01:16 Self-love is the most significant form of rebellion any woman can offer herself.
03:12 A life-altering question asked before a live audience
06:20 We never take a straight journey to self-love. We actually take a journey through self-empathy first
07:17 How and why self-empathy is the pathway to silencing your inner critic
07:37 The definition of empathy
09:00 Empathy can be transformed into two questions:
What is most alive in this moment?
What is at the heart of this matter?
10:35 A joint understanding of self-empathy
12:00 How the lack of self-empathy impacts us and dials up the inner critic
15:57 A former client’s story of lacking self-empathy that may mirror your story now
19:03 The habits of self-empathy that make all the difference
21:25 Awareness #1: Recognize Yourself as a Feeling Being
24:49 Awareness #2: Sensing Your Deepest Needs
27:00 Awareness #3: Life is Challenging. It’s All About How You Show Up
29:09 Awareness #4: Offering Yourself Kindness and Support
35:09 Sentences to use when self-empathy is lacking, and the inner critic/anxiety is raging
36:12 Awareness #5 It Takes Courage to Offer Yourself Grace
37:49 The step-by-step practice of using self-empathy daily: the how
44:35 Self-empathy is the tool to get you out of your head and into your heart
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