Better Days

Tame Your Inner Critic

By: Neal Allen

Narrated by: Neal Allen

In this life-changing book, writer and spiritual coach, Neal Allen, teaches us a stunning new method for quieting the inner critic.

What if your superego has it wrong?

That snarky little bully in your head…you know the one.

You’ve lived under its weight for decades.

I’m a fraud, I’m lazy

I need to work harder

I need to be tougher, funnier, calmer…

I need to stay quiet, look pretty, stop showing off

I need to put others before me, I need to put myself first

I need to be perfect

I need to hide who I really am

Sound familiar?

You know that its scolding voice is harmful to you, but you can't will it away. You accept a life with short periods of peace and long stretches of stress and anxiety. But you don't have to.

In this revolutionary new book, Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic, writer and spiritual coach, Neal Allen, examines a critical aspect of the human psyche that often gets ignored—the superego.

Building on Freud’s idea that the superego necessarily forms a person’s moral conscience, Neal explains how this voice in your head develops in childhood as a survival mechanism, but when no longer needed for protection, camps out in your mind like a personal parasite. A parasite that doesn’t belong.

Through simple and engaging exercises and explorations, Neal leads you into meeting, confronting, and ultimately quieting your own inner critic.

By shedding off the burden of the superego, you can overcome tired patterns of reward and punishment, reduce the self-talk that harms you, and ultimately clear an open space for the life you deserve, one that is gentler and more peaceful.

Just imagine…if all that nasty, negative chatter in your head just evaporated ... what would you do next?

Better days are just ahead.

©2023 Neal Allen (P)2023 Namaste Publishing

Critic reviews

“Better Days will help you get to know your inner critic, and quiet its yammering, and in so doing, get to know the person you were born to be.”—Anne Lamott, Author of Dusk Night Dawn, Bird by Bird and others

My Inner Critic is now toast , thanks to this book!

Neal Allen knows the Inner Critic, and more importantly he knows how it infantilizes us. He knows I'm capable of running the show without the IC. I wish I'd had this book when I was eighteen but I have it now and it's right on time. A Forward by the brilliantly funny Anne Lamott is the icing on the cake. Thank you for writing and narrating this book so beautifully, Neal. Highly recommended .

Great look at the voice in our head and how it isn’t us.

I loved the book. The practical implications of dealing directly with the voice in our head which is actually a parasite are astounding. The only complaint was the editing of the audible version had many overlapping cuts. This was annoying but it’s not a major distraction.

Thank you for ‘Better Days’

Congratulations on this book, and thank you for sharing your beautiful insight. I’ll read it again and again. ❤️

Rings true

Observations and experiences shared throughout this book ring true. I’m going to follow the guidance shared in this book.

Everyone has an inner critic but we don't have to live with it

I bought the physicalbook after listening via Audible. I want to take in the message slowly and write my notes in the margins. It's a text to be studied.for me.

Interesting insight

I appreciate the insight Allen offers about the pros & cons of our inner critic and this has helped me do some good self work