Dear Anita,

thank you for your replies! I am sorry that I didn’t answer you last time, my time at the library was up when I finished my reply to Annie and I though I would just wait for another round – but when I looked up a lot of people were waiting for their turns at the PCs, maybe because it was saturday. The library was closing soon so I left without even writing a note, sorry.

I thought about what you wrote, my inner critic is not as angry as you wrote it I think, not as loud (exept in extreme cases) but that doesn’t make your observation less valid, maybe even more so. Because if you hadn’t put it in these words, maybe I would have said well its not that bad. I think through the years I got to a point where a lot of things that would have drove me mad before just don’t anymore, but I see now that the inner critic is still at work in other places.  Maybe its time to start working on the inner critic again, I have a good book with strategies that I will look into again but also post here when I can’t get any further (often the inner critic seems to have very valid points).

I want to say more on this but somehow I can’t put it into words. I will leave this for another day for now.