3 Powerful Strategies to Meet your Self- Critic

Self-critical thoughts often plague creative people and lead to excessive anxiety, frustration, and procrastination.

The goal of this article is to locate your internal self critic as an autonomous sub-personality.

We’ll explore three strategies that will help create distance between us and this inner dialogue while also developing a more thorough understanding of how and why they exist, what functions they serve in the psyche, and how we can all deal more skillfully with each other.

It’s crucially important to meet your own sub-personality before doing any work on developing or transforming this internal structure into a more adaptive and functional ally.

Before “fixing” the self-critic, we have to shift from the realm of abstract, clinical labels and wake up to the bespoke, individual personality that lives inside of us.

Strategy 1: The Projection Journal

This is a journaling technique where we will pay attention to a concept called psychological projection.

As a brief description of projection, it’s when we have uncomfortable, frustrating, or painful emotions and instead of processing them consciously they are projected on to other people.

By externalizing our emotions like this it can make it much easier to move throughout life without emotional pain.