When my friend said, "Trust yourself," every red flag I had immediately went up.
I grew up with a Biblical understanding (I thought) that I could not trust myself, I could not trust feelings but rather needed to trust what I "know" rather than what I "felt." Feelings change, you can't trust them. The heart is deceitful. This foundational teaching aligned with my personality, I didn't like highly emotional, excitable people!
Note in fairness to my teachers, I was young and what I took away from the teaching may have not been what they intened. None the less, I have always been "suspicious" of overly "feelly" people.
Today the phrase "trust myself" does not cause the same intense reactions it did several years ago.
I recognize God's Spirit working in me
and I trust her.
I trust myself.
I have confidence in myself
not arrogant, not prideful
but a profound, deep strength of knowing and trusting myself.
I am capable
I am compotent
I am confident in the woman God has created me to be.
I trust myself.
