GIVING OURSELVES GRACE BY BEFRIENDING OUR INNER CRITIC (Part 3)

This is a 4-part article exploring the Inner Critic through Satir's Personal Iceberg Model

There is an old Taoist parable called Sāi Wēng Lost His Horse about a poor Chinese farmer in a poor country village. Among the town’s folks, he was considered rich because he owned a horse which he used for plowing and for transportation. One day his horse ran away. All the neighbors said how terrible this was, but the farmer simply said "Maybe."

The hor…