Confidence & its struggles.
I have been struggling with confidence, and this is what my therapist said, when I told her I needed help with it because I just couldn't figure it out: Confidence and humility are not opposite; they work together. Humble means that you are open and still learning. You are confident on your abilities and on making decisions, but you are still open to others’ experiences, knowledge and learning more. Having assurance communication vs. aggressive communication. I expressed that whenever I tried, something in me hesitated and I couldn't get past that. That my relationship with confidence is as bad as my relationship with power: unhealthy, confusing, complicated, outrageous and tiring. I told her I am struggling understanding its real meaning, and that I feel confidence is the opposite of humility. We talked about how I have experienced arrogance, which is not the same as confidence, but now I may confuse it with it, and how my idea of confidence is possibly twisted. We talked abo