Banish the Lies: Outsmart Your Inner Critic
Banish the Lies is a podcast for women who overthink, self-sabotage, and secretly feel stuck, even when life looks “together” on the outside.
Each week, host Tania Cervoni explores the quiet fears and false stories that shape how we see ourselves, lies like “you’ll never be enough” or “if it’s not perfect, it doesn’t count.” Through honest reflection, lived experience, and simple mindset shifts, she invites you to loosen your grip on fear, soften perfectionism, and step out of performance.
You’ll hear conversations about identity, self-trust, and what it actually looks like to live from truth instead of fear, with practical ways to quiet self-doubt and return to what matters.
Because healing doesn’t mean fixing who you are. It means remembering you were never broken.
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Banish the Lies: Outsmart Your Inner Critic
Monday Moment: The Limiting Beliefs That Still Think They’re in Charge
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In this Monday Moment, Tania explores limiting beliefs and the old inner voice that can resurface when we try something new. Even after doing inner work, those beliefs don’t always disappear. They often get louder when we step outside our comfort zone.
Tania reflects on self-doubt, emotional triggers, and how awareness held with compassion can begin to loosen the grip of old patterns. A gentle invitation to notice which belief might still think it’s in charge.
Happy Monday moment. Friends. Today I want to talk about unconscious beliefs, those stories that live below the surface and quietly shape our reality. Someone asked me recently, how do you even know what those stories are? How do you know what limiting beliefs might still be running the show? And. I get how sometimes it may not be obvious because it can be easy to think that the limiting beliefs you once faced have now been resolved. Maybe that's true, and if so great, but maybe you've just not run up against them because you've been staying inside of your comfort zone. A place where these voices don't have a reason to ring the alarm bell. After all the landscape is familiar and you're functioning and you're likely feeling competent. In other words, everything feels fine, but picture a different scenario. Picture yourself trying something completely new. That's when the stories come running. I remember the first time I played golf, someone invited me out and I thought, sure, I'm open. I can try new things. I'm not that attached to being good. And then I got out there and immediately the stress hit along with it. The Committee of Voices, you're taking too long, everyone's watching you. You're holding up the line. Come on, Tania. Get it right the first time. It wasn't so much that I was shocked by those voices. I've done enough self-reflection to know that those stories exist. But what surprised me was just how loud they were. It was like I thought they had been turned down to like, I don't know, a three out of ten and suddenly they were back up at an eight or nine. And here's what I want to normalize. Old stories don't necessarily disappear, but they can lose their authority and when they get loud again, it's often because something new is stretching you. It doesn't mean that your inner work hasn't paid off, and it doesn't mean you're back at the beginning. It just means you're expanding into new territory. So the invitation this week is simple. Try something new, something where you're not already competent. Something just new enough that you feel a little vulnerable or even a little exposed, and when the discomfort shows up. When the old identity suddenly gets louder, instead of going into fix it mode, just notice it. And you may want to consider what is it that your old identity is trying to protect, or what rule is it enforcing? And here's some good news. You don't have to banish it today. Just observe it without judgment. Because I've noticed that when I don't argue with that old voice, when I don't obey it and I don't try to silence it immediately, it softens even just slightly. And it's not because I've conquered it, it's simply because I've stopped feeding it. Awareness when held with compassion begins to loosen its grip. And just because that voice still thinks it's in charge doesn't mean it really is with greater awareness, you get to decide who runs the show now. Okay, many blessings to you on this Monday morning. Cheers.