So many of our most painful obstacles have to do with our confidence level:
— Writer’s Block (lack of confidence that you have anything valuable to say)
— Intimacy Issues (lack of confidence that you’ll be understood or chosen)
— Money Issues (lack of confidence that you can or deserve to be able to support yourself)
— Body Issues (lack of confidence that we have a right to be who we are)
Personally, I believe that confidence is our natural state.
Because, essentially, confidence is curiosity and passion for life.
Babies confidently, curiously explore the world. They’re excited to see what’s out there. They’re not worried they’re going to be rejected or say the wrong thing. Until they’re traumatized. And let’s face it, trauma happens to all of us at some point.
When trauma enters our body, we hold it there, sometimes for decades, sometimes forever, a lump in our throats or our bellies or our sex organs, a heavy lead lid on our natural enthusiasm.
But we can clear those confidence blocks.
By showing up and being present in our bodies, we can loosen the grip of our trauma, letting the exuberance that is our birthright flow freely again.