Send Your Inner-Critic on Vacation-- Permanently!
The Christian Gospel of Luke contains the story of the Prodigal Son. The story revolves around a man and his two sons. The younger son is lacking in conscience and thinks only of himself. One day he asks his father for his inheritance, the father obliges and the son runs off and squanders all of the money. Once he’s broke, he contrives a scheme to return to his father and beg him to allow him to become a hired hand. Instead, the father fully forgives the unrepentant son because the father’s love is so great that it looks beyond the young man’s behavior. The father dresses his son in the finest robes, puts rings on his fingers and arranges for a grand party to welcome the son home. The older son, once he learns of what has happened, is furious with his father and his brother. Because the older son is highly critical of his brother I want you to imagine the older brother as the inner-critic of the younger brother. Seems so many of us struggle with an inner-critic, and in m...