Your Thoughts Are Lying to You

About this episode

Todd Perelmuter discusses the detrimental effects of the inner critic and shares his journey to mental freedom.

Send me a message "Your mind is like a toddler with a chainsaw." Most of us are living in "Stockholm Syndrome" with our own thoughts. We trust our worst abuser — our own inner critic — as if it were gospel. But there is a secret to mental freedom that no one taught us in school. In this talk, Todd Perelmuter breaks down the "slave driver" nature of the ego and shares his personal journey from being a stressed, addicted New York ad executive to finding total mental silence. In this podcast,...

People in this episode

Host: Todd Perelmuter

Topics covered

• mental health
• ego
• self-criticism
• personal journey
• mental freedom

Keywords

• inner critic
• mental silence
• Stockholm Syndrome
• ego
• personal growth

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