Uncovering Pieces of Myself: My Inner Critic
In essence, this is a love letter!
My dear inner critic,
I thought a bit before starting this letter to you.
Today seems to be the right moment to write to you this thank you, but no thank you letter. So here it goes!
You have been tirelessly working over the years, criticizing my every move, sometimes my every breath. At the beginning of my adult life, I mistook you for my intuition and I was listening to you, often kinda religiously.
It took me a few years, 2 depression episodes, 4.5 years of psychotherapy, and approximately 4 years of self-discovery and exploration to understand who you are, how you get triggered, what you do, what you make me do, and finally, learn how to silence you.
I know that you’ve always been with me and that you will continue to accompany me in life however, I don’t need you anymore!
As I stand here today writing these words, I realize 5 things I didn’t use to believe back then when I was listening to you:
- I am enough!
- I can reinvent myself and become anything I can think of! → I have quite a few successes in my past. ;)
- I am loved; first and foremost by myself!
- The people I chose as friends love and appreciate me for who I am.
- Impostor syndrome can lose its power when I view myself as a life-long learner.
So, thank you for all the limiting beliefs you kept throwing at me over the years. Learning to handle you made me stronger, made me the person I am today; a person I love, appreciate, with strengths and weaknesses, self-awareness, and empowering beliefs that allow me to move on!
You have done enough! Looking forward to what comes next!
Thank you, but no thank you!
