self-confidence – how academic achievement isn’t always the answer
Coming from an ultra-humble background in East Germany – which had just emerged from the Soviet era – and my parents going through multiple unemployed periods when I was growing up, the thought of ever going to Harvard, Yale or Oxford seemed surreal. If it could be achieved, though, it would hold limitless opportunities. After […]
Building Self-confidence: Using the Healing Circuit of Love to Enable My self-confidence
Self-confidence is a funny thing. It resides in the mind / thoughts and corrodes the core of our very being when it’s lacking; rotting us from the inside out as it insidiously moves from leaf to root. The leaves in this metaphor are our thoughts, the root is our core (whether we are acting out […]
Fake It ‘Til You Make It
Like many young people, when I was a teenager, I struggled with my self-esteem. As I said in a previous post, I spent much of my time in high school avoiding being vulnerable and staying out of the spotlight. My self-confidence had taken a sudden nosedive from the self-assured person I had been in middle school, […]
