Psychologist shares the 'daily mental workout' she uses to crush her inner critic: 'It's been a real [View all]

game changer.'

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/13/psychologist-rachel-turow-daily-mental-workout-to-crush-inner-critic.html

For most of her teens and 20s, Rachel Turow was her own worst critic.

“I felt awkward and lonely and weird,” Turow, a Seattle-based clinical psychologist, said on a recent podcast episode of “The Happiness Lab,” hosted by Yale University professor Dr. Laurie Santos.

Feeling bad about herself was a “core aspect” of who Turow was as a person: She’d listen to self-love and empowerment anthems, but “had no idea how to get there,” she said. It was the epitome of self-criticism — a common affliction, and one that Turow referred to as “the smoking of mental health.”

"Like smoking, once it gets going, it sort of takes on a life of its own,” she said.

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