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Constant Complaining: Does It Serve Us?

By Toni Bernhard — 2012

One of the major sources of dissatisfaction and stress in our lives is our ongoing desire to control what happens to us—to get what we want and get rid of what we don't want. I refer to this type of desire as the state of “want, don’t-want.” How much control do we have over our circumstances? With that in mind, let’s start complaining about our lives.

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Dr. Robert Firestone on Critical Inner Voices and the Negative Identity

Dr. Robert Firestone describes the Critical Inner Voices underlying a negative identity.

Robert Firestone

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Understanding Our Inner Critic - Esther Perel & Dick Schwartz

My colleague Dick Schwartz, PhD joins me for a conversation about our critical voice. We discuss why we have this inner voice and how we can better understand its motivations.

Richard Schwartz

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Questioning ourselves for being ‘oversensitive’ is a common way that women, in particular, disqualify our legitimate anger and hurt. . . . The fact that some of us feel more vulnerable than others in a particular context does not mean we are weak or lesser in any way.

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Overcoming Self-Doubt and Finding Your Inner Mentor with Tara Mohr

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Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior

Self-defeating behavior is the single most common reason that people seek psychotherapy. It is a poison, preventing us from achieving the love, success and happiness we want in our lives.

Mark Goulston, Philip Goldberg

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Healing Your Negative Core Beliefs

In this video, author and depression counselor Douglas Bloch explains how negative beliefs developed in childhood can lead to symptoms of depression in later life. He then shows how you can replace these beliefs with accurate and empowering beliefs about yourself, others and the world.

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The Power of Positive Self-Talk

Patrick Sherratt from Innervate Education, presents to a group of senior secondary-school students about how our inner self-talk has a big influence on our self-image, performance and ultimately the way our life goes.

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Caged, Comfortable, or Charged - Which Life Is Yours?

This is Brendon unplugged, filmed unscripted, in one take.

Brendon Burchard

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Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice: A Revolutionary Program to Counter Negative Thoughts and Live Free from Imagined Limitations

The inner critic is the voice in our heads that whispers, whines, and needles us into poor self-esteem and self-confidence. It edits our thoughts, controls our behavior, and inhibits our actions.

Robert W. Firestone, Lisa Firestone, Joyce Catlett, Pat Love

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Words to Eat By: Using the Power of Self-talk to Transform Your Relationship with Food and Your Body

This book will teach you how to use word power rather than willpower to increase your motivation and overcome your struggles with eating and body care.

Karen R. Koenig

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Negative Self-Talk