
"You're FAT!": A Conversation With My Inner Critic
A few months ago, I caught my reflection in the mirror. I immediately heard an old familiar voice declare, “You’re FAT!” I knew that voice well. She sounds a lot like me. So much so, in fact, that it took me most of my life to actually differentiate this voice from my own. Here she was, loud and clear, trying to pick a fight. My “Inner Critic.” If you are a human being, with a human brain, existing on the earth with other human beings with human brains, you have an “inne