You Weren’t Born Broken. You Were Taught to Doubt Yourself.

Somewhere along the way you stopped trusting yourself. Not because you were weak. But because someone somewhere made you believe you had no right to your own voice.You didn’t come into this world doubting your worth. You weren’t born afraid to speak afraid to take up space afraid to be too much. That was taught. Slowly. Subtly. Repeatedly.

It might have started with small corrections that weren’t really about growth but about control. With the way your body language was monitored. The way your questions were met with sighs. The way your joy was labelled too loud. The way your needs were treated as disruptions.

And over time you learned. Not how to love yourself but how to shrink yourself. How to over-explain over-please over-work just to feel like enough.

But here is the truth. You were never the problem. What broke your self-trust wasn’t who you are. It was what you were made to survive. The rules you were forced to follow. The guilt you were handed for simply existing in your truth.

Self-love in this space doesn’t mean pretending none of it happened. It means finally seeing that it did and choosing to believe yourself anyway. To listen to your gut again. To re-learn that your thoughts matter. That your feelings matter. That you matter.

Because you were never broken. You were just never believed.

What is one thing you believed about yourself that was never actually yours to carry?