Running With Teresa

How Naming My Inner Critic Helped Me Outrun Negative Self-Talk

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I have a running buddy. Well, not a buddy so much as a frenemy. Well, not a frenemy so much as a nemesis.

So, yeah. I have a running nemesis.

I prefer to run solo, so the fact that she shows up on almost all my runs is, frankly, intrusive. She lives really close by, so she’s…