Addressing Your Inner Critic with Dr. Scharie Tavcer

In this episode, mom, writer, academic, professor, and social justice advocate Dr. Scharie Tavcer speaks about her challenges with and solutions to addressing her inner critic. Scharie discusses the importance of unconditioning ourselves and recognizing where those scripts come from and finding support. 

 We also dive into how we need to love ourselves hard. We discuss the question that academics bell hooks and Brene Brown both raise, “Can we love our children more than we love ourselves?”

About Dr. Scharie Tavcer:

Dr. Scharie Tavcer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies at MT Royal University. She is the 2020 recipient of the Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teacher Award. Scharie is the co author of, “Women and the criminal justice system: A Canadian perspective,” and the author of, “Criminal law for criminal justice students: An introduction.” Her areas of research include violence against women, a feminist lens to understanding crime, victims and trauma informed care, poverty offending, mental illness; addiction, and criminal law. She is a ceaseless advocate for mental health, women’s rights, social justice issues.

Resources:

 In this episode, Scharie and I discuss how having kids has transformed the way we look at love. I cite the work by bell hooks, and her book, “All About Love” as well as Brene Brown and her book, “The Gifts of Imperfection.”