Hey everyone, it's Cara Lowenthal here, your guest host for the week.

Welcome to Radio Headspace and Tuesday.

As you know, this week is all about finding ways to live with less insecurity and more

confidence.

For some people, confidence seems to come naturally, but for some of us it's a lot harder

to build.

So today, let's dive into some of the biggest hurdles to confidence and the most effective

ways to start to create it for ourselves.

To me, I like to think about confidence as a feeling that can come and go, but I like

to think of your relationship with yourself as the bedrock that doesn't change.

You can cultivate this positive relationship with yourself, whether that's self acceptance

or self love or self like, depending on what level you're at with it.

And that is something that you really can build to support you and that is where confidence

comes from.

Insecurity and low self esteem are such a epidemic really because we are all taught

that our worth and value are conditional.

They depend on how we look and what we achieve and how much money we make and if everybody

likes us, it approves of us and any other number of factors.

And this is especially true for people who are members of marginalized communities or

identities because the number of marginalized identities you live in is like a multiplier

or magnifier of the messages that you are not as worthy or valuable as other people and

that you have to prove your worth and value.

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