I still hear my mother’s criticism in my own head when I’m already tired

Dear Delyara, That is one of the hardest things to admit. Sometimes she doesn’t even need to say anything in the present. I can still hear the old tone in my own mind when I get overwhelmed. You’re being dramatic. You always make things harder. Just get on with it. Everybody is tired. It’s strange how a parent can move into your internal voice and keep living there even after you know better. Some days I can answer back to it. Some days I just live underneath it.