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Dealing With Self-Doubt

In your life you’ve most likely doubted yourself, your abilities, and your overall self-worth at some point, right?

Well, that’s actually a really good thing because if you didn’t feel self-doubt, or struggle with your overall worthiness, then you wouldn’t be living up to your full potential and experiencing the growth and evolution that your soul longs for.

See, the thing that I’ve found that has tremendous transformative effects on people is the Truth that – your dreams, desires, and adventures that you long to take, and things that you yearn to do, have absolutely nothing to do with your overall worthiness or feeling deserving, or ‘good enough’ - but in actuality, have everything to do with what your soul came to experience and needs to fully express in order to feel alive.

It really is that simple.

And when you begin to align your dreams, passions, and longings with your soul, rather than your head, you see that what you yearn to do and be in life and work, is simply a natural expression of who you are at a core level.

Sure this sounds simplistic and it really is.

Yet, the misconception is always steeped in the hold-backs of feeling deserving or worthy enough to experience what you long to experience. The feeling of guilt you feel - as though you shouldn’t be able to go after your passions or express them in the way you see fit because others don’t live or work that way – so why should you?

Sound familiar?

But what if you could see that whatever it is that your soul longs to express creatively is simply a natural extension of who you are – and it has nothing to do with being good enough, worthy enough, or better than others –it’s simply ‘what is’ - and it’s part of your make-up– and by you accepting this – doesn’t it take the pressure off, and don’t the feelings of self-doubt go away?

Consider this Truth: whatever it is that you desire to do, be, and have is simply a natural expression of who you are at a core level. And the fact that you yearn to experience and express those things are simply a matter of you aligning with your soul and being who you came here to be.

So, what if by you accepting who you are at a core level, and what you naturally are inclined to do, that you take away all those feelings of: I shouldn’t want this, others don’t have this, then why should I - and rather steep in the knowing that others don’t have to live or work that way, and consider that maybe their soul doesn’t have that desire or long to express what you do.

The guilt that you may feel around living the way you long to live, and working and creating in the ways you long to create, are steeped in comparing your desires with others. Yet, what if you could simply stop looking around at how others are working and living and start looking within and see that what you want is unique to you – and how you need to work and creatively express is about you – not others.

By you accepting your unique style and your soul’s unique expression, all comparison falls away – and all those feelings of guilt fall away too because you realize it’s not about feeling worthy – it’s simply about acceptance of who you are – and what your make-up is - and knowing that it’s just a matter of you being in-line with your soul and acting from there.

So, as always, I’ll leave you with something to ponder – could you begin to consider that who you are, and how you long to live and work is unique to you, and that there is no guilt in you being authentic to your soul – it’s actually a choice to live in integrity with your soul.

As always, it’s your choice.