How Old Is This Voice?

If you feel you do not quite measure up, you may know the exact words by heart. That wasn’t good enough. You should have done better. Who do you think you are? The voice sounds like the truth partly because it has been around for so long.

A free 3-page worksheet for finding out how old yours is: what it says in its own words, roughly when you first heard something like it, and what changes when you picture your younger self hearing it — or saying it in their own voice. Many people notice they would never say it to a child.

Free to share, whole and unchanged, with anyone you think could use it. It comes from Room to Feel Enough, a full workbook on the feeling of not measuring up. Fillable on your computer, or print it and write by hand.