Self-Criticism, Shame and Anxiety — How You Talk to Yourself When It Arrives

Anxiety hurts. But what we say to ourselves about anxiety often hurts even more. In this episode we explore the relationship between self-criticism, shame, and anxiety: the second arrow and why it amplifies everything, Paul Gilbert's three emotional brain systems and why self-criticism blocks the right one, Ethan Kross's research on talking to yourself in the third person, and Brené Brown's work…