Breaking Up
with Your Inner Critic

The inner critic is the number one barrier to expressing our authentic self in the world and disengaging from others’ attacks. In this dynamic, interactive workshop, learn how to break free, express who you truly are with strength and love and protect your dignity.

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Your inner critic is that voice inside your head that bombards you with messages of unworthiness, unlovability, and inadequacy. By breaking up with this tyrant, you can set clear boundaries, liberate yourself from co-dependent relationships, express yourself authentically and disengage from others’ judgments.

  • Awaken to the inner critic in our lives

    The inner critic clings to an outdated version of ourselves, striving to preserve our egoic self that is rooted in deficiency and fear. But this limited sense of self is not who we truly are. By becoming aware that the inner critic is operating in our lives, how often it’s operating and its specific messages, we wake up to the deep desire to be free from its influence.

  • Become aware of the inner critic's damage

    The inner critic’s cost to our sense of worth, our bodies and our emotions is profound. It drains our energy, stifles our growth, suppresses our authenticity, and keeps us stuck in conditioned roles. Just as importantly, it weakens our ability to defend against external attacks, leaving us vulnerable. Feeling the real impact of its effects is critical to experience our true strength and break free.

  • Activate our strength to free ourselves

    Becoming free from the inner critic is the first step to confront and release our limited sense of self. As part of our spiritual nature, we possess the power of Essential Strength to disengage from the inner critic’s influence and preserve our dignity when others attack us. By doing so, we become free to shine as strength and love in this world, expressing our true, authentic self.

This workshop includes live support and so much more:

✓ 12 hours of live teaching with Alison Lee

✓ Co-taught with Michael Torresan, spiritual teacher for 40 years

✓ One two-hour session per week for 6 weeks

✓ Small group size for maximum impact

✓ Unlimited access to video content that deepens the learning

✓ Learn and practice the six steps for breaking up with your inner critic (see below)

✓ Build safety and connection in small group breakouts

✓ Learn in an environment of lightness and laughter as the instructors demonstrate key concepts

✓ Disarm your shame in an environment of shared experiences

✓ Expand your self-awareness through take home exercises specifically designed for the inner critic

✓ Cultivate your ability to be present through custom meditations

✓ Activate Essential Strength through proven breathing techniques

6 steps for breaking up with your inner critic

1. Recognize how much the inner critic is operating in your life.

2. Experience the devastation your inner critic has to your self-image, body and emotions.

3. Experience who you become when you buy into the attack and where the messages came from.

4. Activate Essential Strength to disengage from the inner critic and others’ judgments.

5. Learn multiple techniques for disengagement and find which are most powerful for you.

6. Practice and practice again in a safe environment that provides feedback and increases your effectiveness for the real world.

FAQ

  • I believe that women greatly benefit from experiencing the divine masculine. Michael embodies this. The combination of the divine masculine and feminine in this program is essential to bring various expressions of strength and love to participants. Michael is also my husband. Our love for each other creates an environment of transparency, intimacy and transformation. I ask that you tune into your inner guidance and if it’s still a no, please honour that.

  • Everyone has had an experience of their strength. Often times, this is manifested as frustration, indignation and anger. Most women often repress these feelings and/or criticize themselves for expressing them. We create a safe environment for these repressed feelings to come forward so that you can connect with your true strength.

  • Congratulations! However, if you use any form of rationalizing, justifying or counter-attacking, our experience would propose that you’re still engaged with the attack. Instead, essential strength severs any connection with the attacker, the attack itself and the damage.

  • An honest investigation into this phenomenon will reveal you are paying a great cost for this strategy. By disengaging from this form of motivation, you can begin to pay attention to motivation coming from your authentic self.

  • The only reason other people’s attacks impact you is because you hold this judgment of yourself. If you didn’t, you’d be able to immediately disengage. Therefore, freeing yourself from your inner critic enables you to be free from any reactivity when others judge you.

  • This is true. We all have relationships that are based on false projections/stories. When you begin to not accept the attack and change that dynamic, some relationships may be lost. The choice one needs to make is to preserve a relationship that requires you giving yourself up or create the possibility for a more real relationship.

  • This method is intended to be used at the moment the attack occurs. If Essential Strength is freed, you can immediately discriminate that an attack has taken place and disengage. Essential strength is an energy that cleanly severs you from the falsity of someone’s attack. If we don’t sever ourselves from it, our inner critic gets activated. Using feedback and clearing models are very effective as an added complement after you’ve disengaged and if the other person is willing to work on your relationship.

  • You are expected to attend each session unless there are extenuating circumstances. In the rare and unexpected event that you must miss a session, a recording of the session will be provided so that you can catch up prior to the next session.

  • Yes, every participant will complete a confidentiality agreement.

  • We are not offering a scholarship for the pilot however in the future, they will be available. It’s important to me that this is accessible to anyone who feels called to this work. Please reach out to me to request a scholarship.