Self-doubt is painful and unpleasant, but valuable.

Self-doubt is painful and unpleasant, but valuable. It is the ever present reminder that the civil war within really is happening, and that this is no imaginary internal conflict. Self-doubt points out exactly who are the opposing armies and defines the relative strength and tactics of each. Self-doubt is the conscious expression of the battle between the true self and the false parent that we have internalised, and if you lack clarity about our parents’ deepest motives you need look no further than the cruelty in our own self-doubt. our parents implanted this self-doubt in us long ago with full intention, however unconscious, of blocking us from progressing on the very journey we are undertaking today. our parents of today may smile and deny it all, but our self-doubt speaks louder.