Self-Judgement is Always Learned. It’s Not Your Natural State.

Judging yourself (or anybody) isn’t your natural state. It might feel ‘natural’ if you’ve just taken it onboard as part of your personality but that’s just because you’ve got used to that voice in your head following you around and analysing your every move. There’s an old saying in coaching that if somebody spoke to you like you spoke to yourself in your head then you’d probably end up smacking them and you’d – at the very least – tell them to STFU. Because that judgemental voice or ‘inner crit...