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When you subscribe to the i’m perfectly DIVINE podcast, you’ll receive my Coming Home Meditation as a gift to support your journey back to your divine center.
It seems strange, but there are people who are threatened by your existence. Of course, it isn’t actually you who is the threat — it’s what you represent to them. They believe you have something they cannot have, something you don’t deserve, or that you took something from them. And so they resent you for it. The only semblance of power they feel, after having given it away, is to try to put you down through criticism. This is Part 2 of our series on alchemizing the critic.
Critical people can feel like some of the most draining relationships to navigate. They have a knack for picking at the smallest things, and suddenly you find yourself filled with self-doubt — either shrinking in shame or defensive and angry at being so misunderstood. But what if there’s another way to address the criticism you’re facing?
This week, we’re diving deep into the psychology behind the constant critic, what is really driving their behavior, and what you can do to completely change the way you respond.
Do you ever experience the gap between knowing better and feeling better? Your mind knows exactly what is going on and what needs to happen to shift — yet the very tool you rely on suddenly stops delivering the result you expected.
This is exactly what I experienced this week when I felt pressure but couldn’t seem to let go. My mind knew what to do. I applied my usual go-to tools. But my heart had another plan entirely. Join me as I open up my journal to share where I was and the insights that unfolded — insights that may support you too.
Have you ever wondered why inner work seems never-ending, or why certain feelings keep cycling back no matter what you do? It’s likely because you are experiencing your emotions evolving beyond your human understanding to a deeper spiritual recognition that will set you free. What you feel was never meant to be suppressed or something you have to fix within yourself. Instead, your feelings are doorways to a deeper truth, love, and power that your mind alone simply cannot access.
There is a miracle that has resided within you from the beginning, which was designed to support you in reclaiming your truth. Simultaneously, there have always been people and systems in place to undermine you from claiming it. So much so that when we actually have the courage to face our truth, it has been often deliberately misconstrued as weakness. Yet when you don’t buy into that narrative and instead allow this miracle to work through you, through all the challenges that come with gaining self-gnosis, you are rewarded with even greater love, self-trust, and ease. But because this kind of power is difficult to control, it’s vital to become aware of the ways authoritarian systems work to keep you from trusting yourself.
