I used to be perfect. O.K., so I wasn’t perfect – but I thought I had to be. For many years that was my mindset. I don’t really know where it came from. I know my parents did not expect it of me, yet the feeling was so strong that I was not good enough, not worthy. Have you ever felt that way? What does that even mean, “not worthy”? Worthy of what?
For so many years I had absolutely no self-confidence. I would never initiate a conversation with a stranger. In fact, if I was in a room with people I did not know, I would usually have my head looking down at the ground so no one would talk to me – because what could I possibly have to say that anyone would be interested in?
Originally published in Reiki News Magazine, Spring 2020
