Conversation with My Internal Critic: The Movie

My daughter went on a five-day school camping trip last week (wolves! snow! sand dunes!), and I wanted to get a lot done while she was away. I was accomplishing less than I thought I should–nothing new–so, of course, my internal critic was hanging around a lot.

I decided to capture the experience in a movie.

The scene: the inside of my brain (I know; it looks a lot like a sauna). The characters: me, all vulnerable in my bathing suit, and my internal critic, looking all prim in a trim suit. I think I held my own pretty well. See what you think:

Comments

[Morela]

I love this movie. Sounds very familiar! I can totally relate.

Morela

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[Mandy]

I love this movie - I agree -you held you're own very well. I think our inner critic must the worst critic and we are far harder on ourselves than our people would be.

BTW - you have to tell me how you did this movie. I'm impressed with the technology.

[Kathleen Christensen]

Thanks, Morela! Good luck to you in your conversations with your own internal critic(s)! (I really have a whole host of them, with different roles and personalities!)

[Kathleen Christensen]

Thanks, Mandy! So true about how harsh our internal critics can be.

I made the movie (for free) with Xtranormal: http://www.xtranormal.com/.

[Meg]

Wow! I can totally relate to this video....I too play the shame game and the little voice inside my head usually sounds just like my mother :/ Lol! Thanks for the movie.

[Kathleen Christensen]

Thanks, Meg! Figured I wasn't the only one!

[Gail Storey]

This is fabulous, Kathleen!! I especially love the YES! gesture from the swimsuit lady. She held her own against the inner critic for all of us.

[Kathleen Christensen]

Thanks, Gail! I think I should revisit this video myself periodically for reminders to stand up to my inner critic.