Volume 4: Negative Self-Talk and Inner Critic | Grid Society launches new Pattern Recognition Workbook
Updated: Aug 30
NEW RELEASE:
Pattern Recognition Workbook Collection™
Volume 2: People-Pleasing and Boundaries
44-page Digital Download
Today marks the proud launch of Volume 4 in the Grid Society™ Pattern Recognition Collection™.
Be among the first to explore I Always Put Myself Down, a downloadable workbook designed to help you recognise recurring patterns of negative self-talk, self-criticism and limiting beliefs that can affect your confidence, achievements and how you see yourself.
When your inner critic becomes the loudest voice
What Is the Pattern Recognition Collection™?
The Pattern Recognition Collection™ is a growing library of downloadable self-reflection workbooks created to help you identify recurring patterns across your thoughts, behaviours, relationships and everyday experiences.
When you can recognise a pattern, you are in a better position to change it.
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Negative Self-Talk
When putting yourself down becomes a habit, one moment can quickly become a list of reasons you are not good enough.
Why did I do that?
Why can I never get anything right?
Everyone else seems better at this than me.
Maybe I am just not good enough.
When these thoughts keep repeating, it can become difficult to separate what actually happened from the criticism you automatically add to it.
Pattern recognition helps you start separating the two.
When putting yourself down becomes automatic
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Untangle the pattern
Rather than accepting every negative thought about yourself as true, this volume isolates one recurring internal conversation: the habit of putting yourself down.
By looking more closely at the thoughts, behaviours and patterns connected to negative self-talk and self-criticism, you can begin to recognise what triggers them, when they appear and what might be keeping them going.
At Grid Society™, we call these recurring patterns Grey Voices™.
One pattern at a time
Giving one recurring pattern your attention makes it easier to see it clearly, question the criticism you automatically direct at yourself and decide whether it still deserves a place in the way you think about yourself.
When the way you talk to yourself starts holding you back
Our Confront the Grey Voices™ Workshop brought us here...
It started in our workshops
The ideas behind this workbook grew from our Confront the Grey Voices™ workshop, one of the workshops we have delivered to counsellors, students and professionals across different settings.
We have delivered the workshop to counsellors at the Counselling & Psychotherapy Training Academy (CPTA), counselling students at Barking & Dagenham College and professionals through the Association of International Accountants, to name a few.
Across these very different groups, the same issue kept appearing: the inner critic. People recognised how easily negative internal conversations could affect the way they saw themselves, spoke about themselves and responded to their own achievements and mistakes.
Making the inner critic easier to recognise
Confront the Grey Voices™ became one of our best-selling workshops. The workshop used the wider Grid Society™ concept to help people separate themselves from their critical internal conversations and look at those conversations more objectively.
Using the Grey Grid™, Green Grid™ and Orange Grid™ participants could take a Grey Voice™ out of the constant noise in their head, identify what it was actually saying and examine it from different perspectives. That separation was important. It became easier to be more honest about the thought, question it and recognise the influence it was having.
The Grid Society™ concept gave people a visual framework for seeing their inner critic, rather than simply being inside the conversation.
From Confront the Grey Voices™ to Volume 4
When we began developing the Pattern Recognition Collection™, we knew the inner critic had to have its own volume.
We had already seen through our workshops how common these recurring conversations were and how useful people found having a clear framework for recognising them.
Those experiences helped inspire Volume 4: I Always Put Myself Down, taking the inner critic, negative self-talk and self-criticism into a workbook people can return to whenever those familiar conversations start showing up again.
3 ways to use Volume 2:
People-Pleasing and Boundaries Workbook
How people use the workbook
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5-minute Monday or 60-minute Sunday
There is no set way to use the workbook. Spend five minutes checking one thought or behaviour, or sit with it for an hour and go much deeper. Use the amount of time you actually have.
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For the 4 a.m. spiral
When you wake up at 4 a.m. and your mind starts going over everything, open the workbook and give those thoughts somewhere to go. Use the questions and prompts to anchor yourself back to what is actually happening, rather than letting your inner critic run the entire conversation.
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Gauge the invisible
Do not rely on memory to tell you how your thinking has changed. Use the Pattern Tracker™ and journalling prompts to spot what keeps repeating, explore what is behind it and see how your thinking changes over time.
The Workbook Collection is growing...
The collection continues...
The Pattern Recognition Collection™ is a growing collection of practical self-reflection workbooks designed to help you recognise recurring thoughts, behaviours and patterns in everyday life.
Designed for real life, the collection can go wherever you do. Open it on your phone for a quick check-in, take it with you when travelling, spend an hour with it at home or print the pages when you want to work with pen and paper.
As the collection grows, new patterns, internal conversations and everyday struggles will become new volumes to explore.
The Grid Society™ concept was created by E. Lee and Dr. N. Michelle to provide a structured framework for understanding thinking patterns and acting on them in real time. The Grid Society™ concept, the Pattern Recognition Collection™, the Universal Grid Map of Patterns™, and all associated frameworks, names, concepts, methodologies, original content, and supporting materials are the intellectual property of Grid Society. All rights reserved.
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