When to Listen to the Voice In Your Head (and When NOT To)

Our Inner Voices are super useful and always have been. They are designed to keep you feeling safe, loved, accepted, and valued. 

Even if you grew up in a challenging or harmful environment, our brains are wired to always make lemonade out of lemons. Also, no one has a perfect upbringing. Our parents and care-givers are humans too—flawed and wounded and doing their best.

No one escapes developing the occasional “coping skill” to get them through hard times. This could look like:

• Perfectionism: Being overly critical of yourself before someone else has the chance to do it and hurt you.
• Achievement-itis: Because winning and success were the only ways you could find love from your parents.
• Exhaustion: Because a strong work ethic was praised and valued in your childhood home.

Up until now, the voices in your head that drove you to nail the details, keep training for 1st place, or work sunup to sundown were helping you get where you needed to go. 

But now, you’re not so sure they actually have your best interests in mind—they might be stuck in their old stories and NOT let you evolve into real satisfaction, contentment, or rest.

I wrote my new book, You Are Not Broken to many of the voices in your head. In all the chapters, I create the SAFETY your existing voices need to shift and change—to let you out of your old patterns that hold you back from:

• Healthy relationships
• Balanced and fulfilling career advancement
• Stress relief and time to fully “unplug” without guilt or shame

You can order your copy of You Are Not Broken by clicking the title anywhere in this post. 

It is crucial to THANK those old voices, because they got you this far in life very effectively. They understood the assignment and delivered. But now, YOU get to be in the driver’s seat. When those old messages tell you to:

Be the best human in every room, wash each dish before putting it into the dishwasher, or cram more tasks into your packed week…

You can politely tell them to go to the back of the bus and have a seat. They can ride along and you love them, but they don’t get to control you anymore. Learn how in You Are Not Broken.

Bonus: During the next few months, I’ll be offering a discount on a Hypnotherapy package for anyone from my mailing list that purchases my book and leaves a review.  Simply send me an email with a screenshot of your review and proof of your book purchase, and I’ll send you a discount code for your package. 

Together, we’ll decide which of the Voices In Your Head have your best interests at heart—today and always. And then you can begin to listen again.

In peace and joy,

Sara