Inner Critic Healing

 

Dear Reader,

This week’s episode of The Therapist Poetry Podcast goes somewhere so many of us quietly struggle: the voice inside our head that never seems to be on our side.

In Episode 6, we explore the inner critic — how it forms, why it grows so loud, and why it can feel impossible to escape. What makes this conversation so powerful is the honesty behind it: the inner critic isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you inherit. 

From caregivers, from school, from society, from the moments that shaped you long before you had language for them.

We talk openly about shame, self-harm, avoidance, and the coping behaviours so many people use to outrun uncomfortable emotions. And we explore how these external messages become internal truths — until you finally learn to question them.

Through compassion-focused therapy, simple awareness practices, and a kind of gentle curiosity, this episode shows what it really looks like to soften that internal voice and begin building one rooted in self-compassion instead of self-attack.

If you’ve ever felt trapped by your own thoughts… if you’ve ever wondered why you’re so hard on yourself… if you’ve struggled with the weight of “should” and “not enough” — this episode was made for you.

 Watch Episode 6: Healing the Inner Critic

And at the end of the episode, you’ll hear a moving poem that brings everything together — a reminder that beneath the noise of the inner critic, there is a self that has always deserved kindness.

With warmth,

Ricky

The Therapist Poetry Podcast