Trusting yourself sometimes looks like deprogramming the beliefs instilled in you by your primary caregivers and environments essential for survival. These belief systems dictate our behaviors and oftentimes no longer serve us at the point of reflecting on them. I’ve been taught that it was selfish to put myself first. In believing that, my behaviors have allowed me to be disrespected at no fault of the perpetrators, but my own for not prioritizing myself and my needs enough to create space showing people that I respect myself.