50. Learning to Trust Yourself Again After Years of Self Doubt

Update: 2025-05-28

Description

In this episode, Melissa explores the deep impact that years of masking, self-doubt, and external validation-seeking can have on adults—especially those with ADHD or heightened sensitivity. She shares her own journey of reclaiming self-trust, the limiting beliefs that kept her stuck, and how reparenting herself somatically has helped her—and her clients—begin to heal from the inside out.

What you’ll learn:

Why ADHDers often struggle to trust themselves after a lifetime of being misunderstood
How childhood conditioning creates unconscious limiting beliefs that persist into adulthood
The difference between intellectually knowing something and somatically believing it
How reparenting gets to the root of self-doubt, people-pleasing, and emotional dysregulation
How to recognize and break free from outsourcing your power to others
Why self-trust starts with nervous system safety—not mindset work alone
What an “evidence journal” is, and how it helps rebuild confidence
What it means to somatically rewire old emotional wounds and beliefs
Why external validation can never replace internal safety and self-acceptance
How Melissa is now working with moms to reparent themselves—and why it changes everything

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