Category Archives: inner critic

• 

  How to activate your inner champion

  Posted on January 19, 2022 by Karen in anxiety, assertiveness, coaching, compassionate mind, confidence, confidence building, focus, growth mindset, happiness, Inner Champion, inner critic, mindfulness for business, mindfulness in the workplace, personal development, positive thinking, self esteem, visualisation, workplace mental health, workplace training, workplace wellbeing.
  

  What is an inner champion?   Before I answer the question about the difference between your inner champion and inner critic let me firstly refamiliarise you with the term inner critic: We all have an inner critic, but not all of us let it run riot. This relentless, negative self talk often expresses criticism, frustration […]

  No Comments.
  Continue Reading...
• 

  Productivity tools for Professional Procrastinators

  Posted on August 19, 2021 by Karen in anxiety, automatic negative thoughts, chimp paradox, confidence building, emotional intelligence, focus, growth mindset, inner critic, mindfulness in the workplace, personal development, positive thinking, procrastinating, self care, stress, workplace mental health, workplace training, workplace wellbeing.
  

  Productivity Tools Productivity Tools can be really handy if you are prone to procrastinating. Most of us face the same challenges each day: too many tasks on our to do list and not enough time to complete them. Perhaps your inner dialogue goes something like this: “If I just focus on getting it all done, […]

  No Comments.
  Continue Reading...
• 

  Couch or Half Marathon Mindset ? You decide ……

  Posted on January 24, 2021 by Karen in anxiety, chimp paradox, coach, coaching, confidence building, growth mindset, happiness, inner critic, neuroscience, personal development, positive affirmations, positive thinking, procrastinating, scarcity mindset, self care, self esteem, stress, visualisation.
  

  Why is it no matter how much time most people are given, they often finish jobs or tasks at the last minute and are left feeling completely stressed out? • Why is it that very high wage earners end up broke? • Why do organisations get stuck firefighting? • Why do the lonely find it […]

  No Comments.
  Continue Reading...
• 

  Halloween and Shadows friends or foes?

  Posted on October 31, 2018 by Karen in anxiety, inner critic, neuroscience, positive thinking.
  

  Today it’s Halloween so I thought it rather fitting to briefly talk about human beings and their shadows. I also wanted an excuse to show you a photo of the amazing pumpkin face that my partner Liam made!!! “ Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and […]

  No Comments.
  Continue Reading...
• 

  Taming inner critics, DJs and Zippy

  Posted on July 9, 2017 by Karen in automatic negative thoughts, compassionate mind, confidence, confidence building, emotional intelligence, happiness, inner critic, mindfulness, personal development, positive affirmations, positive thinking, Uncategorized.
  

  Most of you may already know, however for those of you who are unfamiliar, the inner critic is your inner voice or negative chatterbox that often goes something like this: What’s wrong with me? I wish I was as confident as my friends Why can’t I get over this and get a grip? It’s ridiculous […]

  No Comments.
  Continue Reading...
• 

  How to make New Year’s Resolutions work

  Posted on January 1, 2017 by Karen in automatic negative thoughts, compassionate mind, confidence, confidence building, emotional intelligence, focus, happiness, inner critic, mindfulness, mindfulness for business, panic attacks, personal development, positive affirmations, positive thinking, self esteem.
  

  Why is it no matter how much time most people are given, they often finish jobs or tasks at the last minute and are left feeling completely stressed out? Why is it that very high wage earners end up broke? Why do organisations get stuck firefighting? Why do the lonely find it hard to make friends […]

  No Comments.
  Continue Reading...
• 

  Christmas and New Year coaching and counselling book list and you tube clips too..

  Posted on December 26, 2016 by Karen in Artist's Way, automatic negative thoughts, compassionate mind, confidence, confidence building, emotional intelligence, happiness, inner critic, insomnia, mindfulness, mindfulness for business, neuroscience, personal development, positive affirmations, positive thinking, self esteem, visualisation.
  

  Merry Christmas from You Revolution!!! If you get this bored of stuffing your face with mince pies and turkey this Christmas or New Year and you need some inspiration or something to help you to feel less overwhelmed, why not take a look at our top 25 reads for 2016! 1. Screw Work Let’s Play by […]

  No Comments.
  Continue Reading...
• 

  Compare or dare that is the question…. PART ONE OF THREE

  Posted on December 3, 2016 by Karen in automatic negative thoughts, compassionate mind, confidence, confidence building, emotional intelligence, focus, happiness, inner critic, personal development, positive affirmations, positive thinking, self esteem.
  

  For those of you who are unfamiliar, social comparison theory is how we determine our own social and personal worth based on how we stand up against others. It is a process whereby people, like you and I, evaluate ourselves, to a certain degree, by examining their own qualities and abilities with those of others. […]

  No Comments.
  Continue Reading...
• 

  Subpersonalities – the people inside us

  Posted on October 20, 2015 by Karen in automatic negative thoughts, inner critic, positive thinking, visualisation.
  

  Identifying and working with subpersonalities to improve your decision making skills: So what is a subpersonality? Most of us have had the experience of being ‘taken over’ by a part of ourselves which we didn’t know was there. We say ‘I don’t know what got into me.’ Here are a few short definitions: 1 A […]

  No Comments.
  Continue Reading...
• 

  Tip five for people with hectic lifestyles wanting to make positive life or career changes

  Posted on July 2, 2015 by Karen in compassionate mind, Dr Paul Glibert, inner critic, positive thinking, top dog, visualisation.
  

  Do you have a hectic lifestyle and want to make positive life changes but precious little time to make them? Over the next few months, I’ll be sharing with you the mindfulness, self help and personal development techniques and tips that helped me to: • escape the corporate cage, that is, my well-paid secure job […]

  No Comments.
  Continue Reading...