We all have “voices” that live in our heads. And it has nothing to do with mental illness or any abnormality about us. We often don’t pay much attention to the “conversations” roiling around in our heads. When we think, particularly introspectively, we tend to notice them –the passionate voice, the inner child’s voice, our “adult” voice, the deliberating voice….the critical voice. Ah, that’s the voice we notice more than any, isn’t it? That critical voice that can pound on us in the night, disturbing our sleep and reviewing our life’s scroll, stopping mercilessly on every perceived mistake we have ever made – or at least the ones we think we made that day. 

Those with some form of anxiety experience this more often than others. But every person at one time or another has experienced the dis…