Quiet Your Top Happiness Saboteur: The Judge

What's going on in your brain these days?  Is your mind pro-YOU or does it feel more often than not like it's making things miserable?  Harder?  More painful? Or, like it just can't deal with all that's going on?

In these times of unparalleled collective stressors, on top of individualized stress and challenges in our personal lives, many of us are having a hard time showing up at our best at home, at work, and for ourselves.  We're struggling.

Add to that how many of us tend to be HARD on ourselves, even without all of the recent "extras."  We second-guess ourselves, rub our faces in our mistakes and regrets, and hold ourselves back in important ways because of self-doubt.  

The universal happiness saboteur is the JUDGE -- a part of us that lives out its life in our survival brain, declaring us "bad," others "bad" and our circumstances…