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Self-Awareness Breeds Self-Trust
Having both can change your life
Who are you? Do you know? Or does your past color your perception of who you are? Becoming more self-aware can aid you in learning to trust and love yourself. Sounds difficult? It is somewhat tricky, but it is necessary for living a healthy life.
Those of us living with complex post-traumatic stress disorder often find our self-trust destroyed and ourselves living in a predicament because we have little self-awareness.
This article will explore the benefits of building self-trust and how you might learn to believe and care about yourself.
What is Self-Awareness?
In short, self-awareness is when you objectively interpret your actions, thoughts, and feelings. Doctors Shelley Duval and Robert Wicklund offer the following definition of self-awareness.
“Self-awareness is the ability to focus on yourself and how your actions, thoughts, or emotions do or don’t align with your internal standards. If you’re highly self-aware, you can objectively evaluate yourself, manage your emotions, align your behavior with your values, and understand correctly how others perceive you.”
Developing self-awareness aids in building self-trust because it helps us understand who we are and what our values are…
