Apr/May 2025 Aspire Magazine FULL Issue | Page 26

Close your eyes and visualize a whiteboard in front of you. Now envision all the negative chatter and beliefs your Inner Critic is spewing on the dry erase board and visualize it in your own handwriting. Now choose one of the thoughts from the board.

Focus on this thought, and express gratitude that it has helped you feel safe in the past in some way.

Thank your Inner Critic for keeping you safe for now and let it know that you’ ve got it from here. Then, in your mind’ s eye, watch the statement be erased from the dry erase board.

This focused practice serves two purposes. It allows your Inner Critic to be heard which quiets the voice, and it empowers you to own your worth and truth.

Rescripting outdated limiting beliefs is a powerful way to rewire your neural pathways. Your limiting thoughts are not your sacred truth. Each time you catch a limiting thought, as you did in Step 2 above, it’ s important to rescript them, through journaling, affirmations and more.

As an example, if you’ re limiting thought is“ I am not capable of making this change in my life.”, a sample rescript could be“ I am capable of taking one small step at a time.” What’ s important in this practice is consistency, and I’ ve found journaling the rescripted affirmations daily very helpful.