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Put Down The Red Pen & Pick Up The Crayons

Coffee With Hilary and Les from State of Mind Hypnosis and Training Centre

Coffee With Hilary and Les from State of Mind Hypnosis and Training Centre
Put Down The Red Pen & Pick Up The Crayons
Apr 17, 2026 Season 4 Episode 51
Hilary & Les

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We sit with the link between creativity and the inner critic, then trace how judgment and criticism get installed and become a habit that shuts down trying. We reframe resilience as the skill of dropping harsh self-evaluation so learning, agency, and encouragement can lead the way again.
• childhood roots of self-sabotage and the inner critic
• criticism as a learned habit that spreads to self-talk
• interpretation as the source of meaning and distress
• judgment as the antidote to creative work
• why we assume others track our failures
• emotions and body “vibrations” that stop action fast
• the risk of sharing dreams too early
• approval seeking as lost agency and authority
• “I am enough” plus gentler alternatives for practice
• unworthiness as familiarity and habit reinforcement
• encouragement as the opposite of criticism
• learning and repetition as the path to skill
• the crayons visualization for safe experimentation


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