Self-Criticism and Self-Rejection

There is a tone that runs quietly in many people — beneath the everyday, beneath conversations, beneath the smile. A tone that says: "You are not enough. You did that wrong. You are too fat, too loud, too quiet, too much, too little." Sometimes it is almost inaudible. Sometimes it drowns out everything else. It usually comes from your own voice — from the inner judge that has accompanied you for years.

Perhaps you notice it in a tiredness that won't go away. In a restlessness that can't be explained. In a body that feels heavy, as if carrying an invisible burden. Perhaps in symptoms that come and go — stomach, skin, back, heart — that no doctor can fully account for. Perhaps in relationships that always fail at the same point. Perhaps in a glance in the mirror that never turns out kindly.