“Trusting yourself leads to increased confidence which leads to conviction.”

If you want to increase your confidence and proficiency as a caregiver start with learning to trust yourself.  As you learn to trust yourself, your life, relationships and career will flourish.  I have personal experiences to prove it!

I used to always ask others what they thought of my decisions.  To a point, this is good practice.  We receive some helpful (and not so helpful) advice from others.  The problem with continually seeking advice from others is that I wasn’t really asking myself what I wanted.  I wasn’t trusting that I could come up with the right or good enough answer.  I’m learning to ‘buck-up’ and take responsibility for what I want in life and in my relationships.  I’m learning to weigh others opinions with what feels really right inside of me.  As a caregiver to my two young boys and husband (especially when he has a man cold) I have noticed that trusting in myself leads to saving time and increasing my level of satisfaction in my business and relationships.

Living is risky. Navigating the waters of life can be tricky. With this in mind we can still learn from our experiences of misplaced trust, regroup, make changes and build new relationships.  Many of my clients tell me that if they just listened to their feelings and that ever-present voice inside they would enjoy a lot more inner peace and satisfaction.

Trusting yourself isn’t always easy and probably won’t happen overnight but you can begin to change today. One important step to take is to be gentle on yourself. Just because you may not have made great choices in the past doesn’t mean you can’t trust yourself or others now.

Increase your resiliency and tenacity in the face of hurt and adversity by focusing more on inward reflection and growth rather than your outward interactions.  Think of learning to trust yourself as a muscle.  Pretend I’m your Personal Self Care Trainer.  Let’s look at a few ways you can flex those trust muscles starting now.

Turn inward for guidance.  We are so accustomed to looking for others to validate our worth, our actions and sometimes even our thoughts.  I encourage you to turn inward for guidance instead of always leaning on others to help and validate you or the decision you need to make.

*  Often we see ourselves from a very biased and skewed perspective.  To gain renewed trust in yourself learn to believe your own opinion.  Cut out saying, “I don’t know” and replace it with the question, “What do I know is true?”

*  Practice tuning into your intuition or inner voice.  Instead of giving the doubting voice so much space inside yourself, make room for The Encourager.  This voice is encouraging, self-affirming and will always speak the truth in love.  Listen and then take action on what you hear.

“When you trust yourself you give others a person they can trust.”

I’m curious…as usual!  Have you had to learn to trust yourself?  How has it helped you as a caregiver?   Please share your story with us below!

Love to you,

Amy

Amy Englemark is a Self Care Expert, unique-like a breath of fresh air in a stressed out, overworked society. She is passionate about showing healthcare professionals, doctors and nurses in particular, why staying healthy is vital to long term resiliency.  As a dynamic, sought-after speaker, writer and founder of Amy Englemark Coaching, Amy passionately guides her clients to develop and maintain guilt free self care practices so they can enjoy more energy and time as well as provide the best care to their patients.  Amy has influenced the transformation of lifestyles by empowering individuals to take responsibility and leadership for their own health and happiness.