12 Ways to Build Self-Trust

The opposite of self-trust is self-doubt.

Biological characteristics that we are born with, such as being prone to anxiety, mix with our significant life experiences to to contribute to determining why we may be more self-doubting than trusting or the reverse!

Examples of significant life experiences that may influence the way we see ourselves and the extent to which we trust or doubt ourselves:
Frequent moving

Parents divorce,

Substance abuse in the family,

Exposure to trauma, such as sexual or physical abuse, growing up with a mentally ill parent, or experiencing homelessness, poverty, or abandonment.

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Certain experiences arising in connection with your race, age, economic status, sexual or gender identity, culture, religion, and so forth.

Events need not be dramatic to illicit self doubt.

Your position in a family such as being the only child not to attend college in a family of siblings with graduate degrees or being unpopular with kids at school.

The messages we hear from others impacts our view of ourselves. A mother might refer to her daughter as selfish or cold emotionally. Siblings may refer to one sibling as the known favorite of their parents. Guidance counselors who doubt a student's intellectual capabilities are influential as well as coaches, teachers, friends, and others. Any message you receive about yourself that you interpret as an offense may affect your level of self-trust or self-doubt.
 

Always Remember:

It is not the event or message itself that causes doubt to arise, but how you interpret it.

You are hard-wired to be self-connected.  You need only open the inner door to access to the creative part of you. Self-connection is a game changer. To find out more about how I can help you make this essential connection, read more here.