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Quiet Your Inner Critic in 1 Minute — Silly Voice Trick (Silly on Purpose Day 2)

Your inner critic gets a name and a chipmunk voice today.

This is Day 2 of our 7-day Silly on Purpose: The Laughter Toolkit series.

Name the grumpy, gloomy feeling like a hurricane (hello, Hurricane Doreen) so you remember it is weather and it passes. Then replay your inner critic's meanest lines in a squeaky helium-balloon voice and notice how hard it is to feel crushed by a cartoon. You are not ignoring the thought; you are taking away its microphone and handing it a kazoo.

In this episode:

Name the mood like weather so it can pass

The helium voice trick for negative self-talk

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