Many of us feel as though we're failing at everything at the moment. If we’re chatting to friends, every chance we spend some of that time reassuring them that they’re doing great, that this is a strange time, and just getting through it, is good enough – we don’t always talk to ourselves in such a compassionate tone though.
Many of us have a pretty critical inner voice that can be quite harsh and judgemental. Our inner critic can be even more amplified than usual at the moment because we’re all out of our comfort zones as we try to adapt to a new normal.
Dr. Sinead Lynch is a Counselling Psychologist and Senior Clinician with Jigsaw and, throughout her career, she has had a special interest in compassion focussed therapy and emotion-focused therapy, both of which essentially encourage us to allow all feelings and thoughts as part of our human experience.
In this edition of You OK? Sinead explains where the inner critic can come from, why it can be bad for us and how we can start to cultivate a bit more self-compassion.
If you have a tendency to beat yourself up a bit or criticise yourself for not doing something as well as you would like to have done it, chances are you have a pretty vocal inner critic – and this is the pod for you.
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