I wasn't always this confident.
When I was younger, I believed you either had confidence or you didn't. I had no idea that confidence was something you could create.
A combination of anxiety, desperately wanting to fit in and spending far too much time worrying what people thought of me, meant my confidence levels, for the most part, were pretty low.
And when my phobia of sick began to get worse as I entered my teens, my low self esteem increased and I felt terrified of the world.
If someone spoke to me before I’d had time to rehearse a response in my mind, I’d panic and spend the entire conversation worrying that I’d said the wrong thing or convincing myself that they’d think I was a complete weirdo. Or worse, rude.
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