" For resilience to deepen, we have to diminish the inner critic, lessening the amount of airtime the voice typically garners. We have to see the critic for what it is: misguided. Once we do, we free ourselves from its reign. When we bring our attention to the current moment, and pay greater attention to what's truly happening in our inner world, we see that the inner critic is just a voice, typically one that does not speak the truth. We can see more and more clearly that while we're not perfect—nobody is—we’re much less imperfect than our inner critic proclaims. "

― Gail Gazelle , Everyday Resilience: A Practical Guide to Build Inner Strength and Weather Life's Challenges