Trust yourself?
If you don’t, who will? Sounds easy to see two little words scribbled out on a banner, huh? It is easier to say than to do. For many human beings, trust is only a word. The phrase “Trust Yourself” has a deeper meaning.
To trust myself? How do I prove trust to myself? If you could see the inside of my mind and body when I prepare to put my written words–a novel–out into the public, those words disappear from my vocabulary…momentarily. Okay, in truth, for many minutes, hours, days… They are replaced with the word Fear.
In reality, I need to have an inner trust knowing that every day I’m exposed to the public–the world, which is exactly what I’m doing this minute. But, as I said above, if I don’t who will? It doesn’t take much for that trust within myself to waver, but when writing chose me to spill out those ideas my muse throws at me, I force myself to shove fear/panic aside so I can trust myself. Trust yourself. Right. Easier said than done. Trust yourself anyway.
Am I proud of admitting how “fear” can take over sometimes and blur that inner trust? No, of course not, but I’m only human. Am I the only one with that panic button lurking inside when it comes to exposing oneself?
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel 
6 thoughts on “Tuesday Inspiration for the Muse: Who Do You Trust?”
davidprosser
You have to learn to trust in yourself. Your instincts are usually right so going with a gut feeling shows it ‘s been evaluated first.
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
Oh, David, I listen to my gut feelings. This has saved me many times over. 🙂 I appreciate you taking the time to comment. OX
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teagan geneviene
Trust… I admit I have enough baggage to sink the Titanic (no iceberg necessary). Trust myself (I feel an hysterical laugh coming on)… just about as bad in recent years; self-blame for things I know were out of my hands. We’re all afflicted with this stuff Mary. (Anyone who thinks they are not, has not looked very far within.)
Eleanor Roosevelt has a lot of wonderful words about fear.
Only you know the story you are writing. So the only one you can really trust is you. Deep breath…
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
Baggage? Trust? I see where the two go hand in hand many times. I’ll take some time to look up some quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt. I’m sure I’ve seen many by now. Good point about only me knowing the story and trusting myself. So far, I have. I do trust my muse. I think she’s me in disguise. 🙂 Taking a deep breath now.
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D. Wallace Peach
You’re not the only one, Mary. It’s hard putting something so personal as our books out to the world knowing that they will be evaluated!!! But we are all in the same place. Even if we wrote perfect books, there would be readers who don’t like them. Fortunately, the skin gets tougher the more we do it 🙂
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
The tough skin thing is a given, though not easy to build. At times mine isn’t as “tough” as I’d like it to be. We are for sure all in the same place. It’s nice when others understand. Thanks for your lovely comment, Diana. Happy Writing!
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