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Your inner critic pulls up a chair and takes a seat at the table. Its main goal is to sabotage your plan with ruthless destruction. You need this four part recipe to show your inner critic who's boss. Are you ready to get started?

Building your confidence doesn't come easily. You need to quiet outside noise, and your inner critic, right out of the starting gate. Your efforts will be rewarded as you become secure in who you are and what you bring to the table.

The chase for perfection is long and exhausting. It asks things of you that are impossible for you to provide. Learning to let it go helps you find ways to better yourself without feeling the unnecessary pressure attached to it.

You can lean into your emotions, process them and learn from them before letting them go. As you do you become a stronger version of yourself in the process. Knowing this makes it easier to let the pain in so your healing journey can begin. Learn more now.

Being unapologetic does not come without patience or practice. You need to develop a mindset that helps you learn not to assume responsibility for someone else's mood or be in a rush to fix something just to keep the peace in a situation.

Loving yourself is hard. Picking yourself apart is much easier to do. Learning to embrace who you are in this moment will be a game changer. You will build a solid foundation that gives you an unshakable confidence which prevents anyone or anything from rattling you moving forward. Discover how when you

Anger consumes you. Your childhood home environment was fueled by it. You were taught to keep that strong emotion bottled up inside. Now, as an adult, your anger is a ticking time bomb that's ready to explode at a moments notice. Learn more now.

Your inner critic is an uninvited passenger on your journey. It wants to do everything it can to stop you from moving forward. Discover three tools that can help you silence the criticism and continue on with your journey now.

Mental abuse leaves behind invisible wounds that are difficult to heal. You face obstacles that are hard but not impossible to overcome. Learn how those obstacles are holding you back now.

Trauma creates an unworthy picture of who we are that stays with us moving forward. Knowing how it impacts our life helps us heal. Learn the top five areas impacted by trauma the most now.