Reframing Your Inner Critic: Why Your Mind Tries to Help (Even When It Hurts)

That voice telling you your work isn’t good enough? It’s not your enemy—it’s an overprotective friend with bad boundaries.

In this episode, we explore why anxiety acts like a smoke alarm that can’t tell the difference between a five-alarm fire and a little grease on the burner. You’ll learn how your brain prioritizes survival over peace, why memories aren’t as reliable as we think, and how to bring compassion to both yourself and others when perspectives clash.

Plus: a practical 4-4-6 breathing technique to reset your nervous system when anxiety spirals.

Key Topics:

• ​ Understanding your inner critic’s protective (but misguided) intentions
• ​ The science of memory and why “truth” isn’t always “fact”
• ​ How anxiety loops and “what if” thinking steal your peace
• ​ Why self-compassion is as important as compassion for others
• ​ Practical breathwork for nervous system regulation

Whether you’re stressing over presentations, creative projects, or just trying to remember where you put your phone, this episode offers insight into what’s really happening in your mind—and how to work with it instead of against it.

Take what resonates. Leave what doesn’t. Stress less, breathe more.