I noticed when I was in graduate school I had lots of insecurities surrounding presenting in classes. When talking with an old wise monk about why I was feeling this way, he asked if I had any childhood trauma. I thought childhood trauma meant that something horrific had happened to me and that's not the case. But he explained to me that we can have trauma from little events in our life that don't necessarily have to be big but can have a great impact on us. I was insecure about presenting in front of teachers even as an adult and as a monk. A few teachers told me growing up that I was a horrible presenter, I would never go to college, and that I was a bad student. In the back of my mind, I believed them and never even thought I would graduate college in the first place. I proved them wrong by doing what they said I couldn't and those old wounds started to heal after I understood that those insecurities were negative voices of others. https://MonkMindset.com