Let’s talk about where self-doubt actually comes from. Because I promise you—it didn’t start with you.

From the time you were small, the world taught you a very specific lesson: your instincts couldn’t be trusted. That gut feeling? Too impulsive. That creative spark? Not practical. That certainty in what you knew to be true? Better check with someone more "qualified."

And who were the experts you were supposed to listen to instead? Teachers. Parents. Religious leaders. Government officials. Bosses. A long list of authority figures who had the power to shape your world—and who, intentionally or not, taught you to look outside yourself for answers instead of within.

And it made sense, in a way. As a child, safety was everything. If you didn’t follow the rules, if you didn’t learn to fit in, if you didn’t adapt to what the people in charge expected, there could be consequences. Real ones. So you learned to survive by stuffing down that incredible, instinctive part of you—the part that just knew. You buried it so deep that over time, it became almost impossible to access.

But here’s the thing: that part of you never actually went away. It’s still there, waiting.

And if self-doubt is the voice keeping it locked up, then we need to get real about how to unlearn what’s been ingrained for so long. Because trusting yourself again? That’s not rebellion—it’s a return to something that was always yours.

More on that soon. But for now, just sit with this: You were never broken. You were simply trained to believe that you were.