“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” Suzy Kassem

On the 14th of June AWiBers joined for two round table discussions on Self Doubt led by Helina Abye, Communication Lead at AWiB. It started with an interactive self introduction where participants shared their background and their expectations from the session.

Defined as the feeling of uncertainty about certain situations, decisions or aspects of life, self doubt has different manifestations and developing ways to understand and combat is essential.

They reflected on self doubt from different perspectives such as perfectionism, constantly seeking flawlessness, comparison, fear of failure, negative self talk or engaging in critical inner dialogue.

Major Takeaways

• Self doubt can stem from anxiety, childhood experiences or attachment disorders
• Manifestations of self doubt include feeling worthless, having a loud inner critic, impostor syndrome, anxiety and so forth
• The tools to address self doubt include journaling, affirmation exercise, mindfulness meditation, self reflection prompts, gratitude listing, goal setting, seeking feedback and positive visualization and taking care of oneself and cultivating validation from within
• Self doubt cannot disappear overnight, in fact we learn to take action despite having a certain level of doubt
• Addressing self doubt is a journey to be practiced everyday

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