Of all the people to ‘cancel’, it’s this one 🤬
I read a beautiful post this morning from a coach I follow, Cheryl Richardson.
She talked about how she used to rush through her days, almost like they were emergencies. Multi-tasking and speeding through to get a task done so she could zoom into the next one. She prided herself in her efficiency and ability to multi-task.
She would forget why she walked into a room or what she even had for breakfast because she wasn’t present in her body. Where was she? Up in her head with her Inner Critic who was doling out her daily marching orders.
And then her nervous system did what it does best — it broke down to keep her from killing herself.
“Self-care in the wisdom years has been about pulling back on the reigns. Slowing down. Doing one thing at a time. Canceling the whole notion of emergencies altogether.”
RIGHT ON, Cheryl!
And here’s where I geek out: When we allow our minds to manage us and tell us believable B.S. about how much we should get done in a day and buy into what that says about our self-worth and enoughness, we lose.
We lose time, connection with the people we care about, daily ease and peace, and our health. And all for what? To say that we got everything checked off our list? Crazier yet, if you’re being led by those ‘not enough’ thoughts, it means that your Inner Critic is literally the one making up that stressful and unrealistic to-do list, to begin with.
So, if there is one person, who’s not even a person, to cancel in our current cancel culture?
It’s your Inner Critic. Hands down. Cancel that bitch. She cheats you out of life.
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