🦁 Run though this inner critic journal template at least once per day, either in realtime or after the fact.

1. Identify When You Are Being Critical

My inner critic is saying...

2. Move Toward Your Critic

🪝 Don’t bite the hooks, but face it with curiosity, openness, and attention.

Are you willing to move toward your inner critic?

3. Explore the Root Fears and Empathize

😭 Reread your critic’s statement but this time imagine the child saying this, red-faced, crying, enraged, and hurting.

My inner critic feels and needs...

4. Regroup and Problem Solve

🧠 Empathy is important, but now we all need to get on the same side and make a plan to move forward.

I want to work with my inner critic rather than against it. My win-win solution to this issue is...

5. Into the Roar

🏔️ Ultimately, you have to take bold courageous action. You must do things that your critic says you cannot do. You must challenge the completely false and limiting stories of your safety police. Not everything will go according to plan.

I respect my inner-critic’s feelings, but I will not be enslaved by them. The action I’m going to take is...