What is the cost of listening to your inner critic?
Because you might have got used to living with your insecurities without realising what they’re really costing you.
Take my client Kate, she’s a senior scientist who’s just led a team in an award winning programme. She had been invited to give a presentation to …700 people.
A huge opportunity for her career and funding. But also, huge pressure.
Cue the doubts. When she came to me, she was ready to ask someone to take her place.
She didn’t want people to think she was taking the credit for the team’s work, in a spiral of second guessing her contribution. She’d just done her job right? … she was nothing special.
(you know that common habit of normalising and downplaying our achievements!)
In 4 sessions we;
unpicked the beliefs that were keeping her from recognising her own value,
identified the stories she had created around other people's judgments,
developed new strategies and habits to support patterns of thoughts that would support her to achieve her goal
Working with her the day before we created a clear vision of her achieving her goal so she already knew just how it would feel allowing her to step into that as soon as she walked out on to the stage.
And she did it! In fact she smashed it and was asked to come back again!!
When she called me after feeing so exhilarated by what she had done - not because she didn't feel nerves but because she had and had done it anyway!
She just couldn't believe she nearly gave the opportunity away to someone else.
If you are ready to stop letting self-doubt and that inner critic hold you back get in touch I would love to support you to SHINE!
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