Improve your and your children’s quality of life by combating insecurity
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onfidence makes us feel whole, strong, powerful, and effective, whether we experience it in the kitchen, the boardroom, at the podium, or in the classroom. Feeling confident allows us to be our best selves: relaxed, certain, and competent.
Conversely, insecurity shrinks and cripples us. Our critical self-assessment ties us up in knots, diminishing our capacity to think, speak, and act. Insecurity makes our heart beat faster — not in a good way — and our palms sweat. We imagine that the world is against us and that failure is our fate.
“When my son was engaged I worried we’d never see him again. I knew how much he was looking forward to spending time with his ‘new’ family and I was afraid he’d want to be with them every Shabbos because theirs is a youthful, ‘happening’ household filled with young couples, unlike our home. Also, his in-laws have the financial means to take their kids on expensive vacations and buy them luxuries, whereas we have nothing to offer but ourselves. Why would they choose us?”
As it turned out, this mother’s fears were unfounded; the new couple remained close to both sets of parents.
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