How to Switch Your Inner Voice From Insecure to Confident

I hate having to filter myself.

I tread carefully.

Got to make sure not to offend anyone. Don’t want anyone to lose their temper at me. God forbid they don’t like me.

Then there’s me.

Constantly putting pressure on myself to “be good.” Wtf does that even mean?

I have to maintain a certain image. If I break it, who knows what people will think of me?

But what do I think of me?

Depends on which version of myself shows up.

The insecure girl who is afraid of being “too much” or the confident woman who has no bounds or limits to what she can do.

Sometimes, I fear I’m making her up.

When the doubt inside myself is pervasive, it’s hard to believe that woman exists.

I become introspective.

Why am I like this?

As it turns out, that’s the wrong question to ask. I’m consumed by “why” but all that does is dig me deeper in the hole.

Instead, I have to choose something different.

Both in my questions and in my actions.

I’ve become passive when I need to be active.

I need to ask, “What can I do to break through this?” rather than contemplating what is wrong with me.

I find things that move me. Music. Writing. Dancing. All in the vein, I can shift my behavior.

Just like that, a switch is turned on, reminding me an object at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by an outside force.

I don’t know what that force is, but it worked. It’s hovering between off and on, but I fight for it to stay on.

I try to tune out the judgment in my head.

Stop overthinking. Just do it.

And so I do.

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