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: Before You Hit Send
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In this Monday Moment, Tania reflects on a recent experience of being caught in an escalating conversation, where the urge to respond immediately felt almost automatic.
She explores the internal pressure to fix, explain, and manage situations in real time, and what shifted when she chose to pause instead.
This short episode invites listeners to notice the difference between urgency and intentional response, and to consider what becomes possible when we take a moment to settle before reacting.
Happy Monday. The last 24 hours for me have been rather intense. I've been in a conversation with someone where no matter what I say, no matter how I try to say it somehow, it just seems to make things worse. The messages just keep coming at me, and emotions run high. And I can feel that pull to keep replying as fast as it's coming in. And today I could feel that in my body, that urgency, that pressure to say something, to do something immediately. So this time, as I was sitting in the sun with my cup of green tea, I did something different. I didn't respond, at least not right away. Not because it didn't matter, but because I could feel how much my need to manage this situation was keeping me in that loop of reacting, trying to fix it, and then reacting again. So instead, I just sat there drinking my tea, letting my body settle, not trying to solve anything in that moment. And as simple as that sounds, it was not easy. Yeah, everything in me wanted to jump back in, but I stayed there in the pause and as I did that, I noticed something shift. My thoughts got a little clearer. I wasn't reacting from that tight, anxious place, and I could actually feel my system calming down. And it made me realize just how quickly I move, how fast I try to respond, explain, defend, fix before anything has a chance to settle. Before I've had a chance to settle. And when I didn't do that this time, there was just a little more space. Space to think, space to breathe. Space to choose how I actually wanted to show up instead of reacting automatically. And when I did respond later, it came from a different place, more grounded, less reactive. So my invitation for you today is if something shows up that feels really intense and you feel that urge to respond right away. Maybe just ask yourself, do I actually need to respond right now in this very moment, or do I need a minute to come back to myself first? Okay. Have a great one.