I hear from women often who want to know how to feel more confident and how to have that “it factor”. Confidence is a feeling, based on what we are thinking, and it’s different from being empowered. In order to access confidence, we must understand and be aware of our thoughts, and hold space for the feelings that we experience. It is through a self-compassion practice and understanding of ourselves and our thoughts that we can become more confident. In this episode, I share the process of how to create the thoughts that are necessary to be a confident woman. 

Topics in this episode

• We aren’t born confident
• The opposite of confidence is doubt
• We don’t need evidence ahead of time that we can do the thing we want to do 
• Self-compassion requires:
• Mindfulness of what is going on with our emotions
• Acknowledgment that we are human 
• Kindness
• As you believe in yourself, other people, and their thoughts about you, don’t have to mean anything
• Creating an evidence file
• Asking your brain for help to believe in yourself
• When the doubtful thoughts come back