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Embracing Your Inner Critic: Turning Self-Criticism into a Creative Asset
Embracing Your Inner Critic: Turning Self-Criticism into a Creative Asset
Embracing Your Inner Critic: Turning Self-Criticism into a Creative Asset
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Embracing Your Inner Critic: Turning Self-Criticism into a Creative Asset

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Hal and Sidra Stone are the creators of "Voice Dialogue" process, a therapy that transforms the inner critic from crippling adversary to productive ally.

The inner critic. It whispers, whines, and needles us into place. It checks our thoughts, controls our behavior, and inhibits action. It thinks it is protecting us from being disliked, hurt, or abandoned. Instead, the critical inner voice causes shame, anxiety, depression, exhaustion, and low-self-esteem. It acts as a powerful saboteur of our intimate relationships and is a major contributor to drug and alcohol abuse.

Through examples and exercises, the Stones show us how to recognize the critic, how to avoid or minimize "critic attacks," and, most important, how the inner critic can become asn intelligent, perceptive, and supportive partner in life.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 26, 2011
ISBN9780062111944
Embracing Your Inner Critic: Turning Self-Criticism into a Creative Asset
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Hal Stone

Hal Stone, Ph.D., and Sidra Stone, Ph.D., both clinical psychologists, are the authors of Embracing Ourselves and Embracing Each Other. Hal founded the Center for the Healing Arts in Los Angeles, one of the first holistic health facilities in the country. Sidra directed Hamburger Home in Los Angeles, a residential treatment center for adolescent girls.

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    Currently reading. This book is a very powerful guide to how to develop your Aware Ego and not have your moods and actions dictated by your primary selves (Inner Critic, Pusher, Pleaser, Perfectionist, etc.).

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