Applying for a job and hearing my mother’s critical voice
The CBT Dive · Episode 8 · 58 min
A thought record on interview avoidance, and on whose voice the self-doubt really is.
Did your parents want you to be a doctor or an engineer? Perhaps they came from a place of precarity and unintentionally undermine your efforts to carve out your own path to be a creative, to freelance, to take risks. In this episode, Nino processes his preparation-avoidance ahead of a job interview. His avoidance is rooted in negative self-talk and self-doubt. But whose voice is it? He worried he might be a disappointment, but to whom? Sometimes we subconsciously maintain loyalty to our family of origin by internalizing their critical voices.
What it covers
Thought records
Negative self-talk and self-doubt
Internalized parental voices and loyalty to family of origin
