Untangling Stressful Habits – Self-Doubt

If you have been in my world for a while, you will know that I am passionate about habits and untangling unhelpful habits to live a fulfilling and whole-hearted life as a well-being. So I am writing a series to shed some light on some stressful habits that have come back in to my awareness recently.

Before I start sharing about stressful habits, let’s have a look at what stressful habits are.

What Are Stressful Habits?

Basically – habits can be useful or not so useful, helpful or not so helpful, stress inducing or not. Sometimes we are conscious of our habit/s (i.e. often chosen and intentional) or the habit/s can sit within our blind spots or the unknown.

When I refer to stressful habits, I am referring to habits that are impacting our overall life, business or well-being. They could be adding extra stress, suffering or draining life force energy in our lives. The stressful habits could be showing up in one or a variety of areas within our lives (i.e. physical, emotional, mental, financial, environmental or social).

In order to start to untangle from stressful habits, we need to develop self-awareness, so we can be more responsible and take ownership of our own life. Today I wanted to introduce self-doubt.

Stressful Habit: Self-Doubt

If you have lived with self-doubt, you will be familiar with the following definitions of self-doubt –

• “lack of confidence in oneself and one’s abilities.” – Google
• “the act or state of doubting oneself.” – Collins Dictionary
• “a lack of faith or confidence in one’s abilities.” – The Free Dictionary
• “the feeling of not having confidence in yourself or your abilities.” – Macmillan Dictionary.

How would you define self-doubt? Feel free to share below.

Where Does Self-Doubt Show Up?

Self-doubt can show up in many places within our lives. For example self-doubt can be linked to –

• not starting the business you would love to,
• not commencing that course you have wanted to do,
• not going for the job promotion you have dreamed about,
• not asking for help from people who can support you,
• not being paid what you are worth or by how much value you give,
• not embracing your gifts and talents so you can share them with the world, or
• creating stress and anxiety for thinking you are not good enough.

Don’t worry the majority of us experience self-doubt, so BE self-compassionate 🙂

Over to You…

Now you have this awareness, what is your next step? Feel free to share any insights on self-doubt or a reflection below. Sometimes change can take a while, so be patient and of course self-compassionate. Also – remember when self-doubt is consciously understood it supports our adventure of wholeness and heartful living.

If you are ready to take yourself on the adventure of getting to know yourself (your true Self), why not join the Toolkit? A place where I share tools, inspiration and ideas to live a courageous and openhearted life.