Overcoming Self-Criticism

Comparison used to be to your neighbour, your colleague, maybe a film star you saw once a month at the cinema, and there was a natural limit to how many lives you could hold yourself up against, today that limit is gone. The stimulus is infinite, produced by professionals, shaped by algorithms designed to keep you looking.

B Needing validation is not a character flaw, it is a social reality. The word got a bad reputation somewhere along the way and became associated with neediness, with people who cannot stand on their own, and that framing made people ashamed of something completely natural. Let's reflect about that.

By Hila Eigner, MA | Reflection Companion The Hidden Beliefs That Ruin Relationships Most of us enter relationships with our own set of beliefs, assumptions about how things should be that feel like common sense. It might be that love means sacrifice, that conflict destroys connection, that your worth depends on how much you are needed. These beliefs feel true because this is what we learned from our environment and experience, but they are not facts. They are thought pattern

There is a voice most of us carry around without ever questioning where it came from. It shows up after something small, comments on what you did or did not do, and never seems satisfied. The strange thing is it sounds exactly like you, but not supportive. That is your inner critic.