That Damn Inner Critic.

This is a difficult entry to write.

I don’t know about you but I have a really loud and pushy inner critic. Somedays she is so loud in my head I find it difficult to reason with her. Other days it is her voice that pushes me forward and motivates me to move through it and give it my best shot.

At first, Clara was just a story, a little internal thought bubble and nothing else. But as I thought about what I wanted to create from this story I could see the start of something much bigger than first thought. This began an interior conflict between myself and my inner critic. The conversation went a little bit like this -

“This is such an exciting venture and will push me artistically”

“Why would anyone invest in me?”

“I could ask other musicians to feature on different tracks’

“Why would anyone want to perform on my album?”

My inner critic is the harshest critic I know and somedays it is hard to reason with her. She knows all the right buttons to press, but I am learning to quieten her on her loudest days. I understand now she is part of the process and accepting her voice means she no longer stops me from creating.

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