Part II : The Thoughts That Hurt Us

Chapters 6–10 · Understanding the inner struggle

Some thoughts are merely tiring. Others hurt. They arrive in our own

voice, with the authority of long familiarity, and tell us what we are worth, what is about to go wrong, what we should have done, and

what we must find out before we can rest. This part of the book looks

at five of those voices: the critic, the catastrophizer, the perfectionist, the guilty conscience, and the one that cannot stand not knowing.

Each of them started out trying to protect you. Each, left unexamined, ends up costing more than it saves.