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Nina Alvarez
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Re-educating Our Inner Critic
We do not need to suppress or kill our inner critic, but only need to re-educate it, but only need to deploy three simple ways to make space for the inner child:
- Get more playful in our creative endeavours.
- Skip doing something adults do in favour of doing something that kids love to do, like drawing, writing poems and playing in the pool.
- Practice constructive questioning by asking why to the things we (and others) take for granted.
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