Featured in Voyage Bold Journey on July 2, 2024. Read the full article here.
We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Emma Mitchell a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Emma, we’re so excited for our community to get to know you and learn from your journey and the wisdom you’ve acquired over time. Let’s kick things off with a discussion on self-confidence and self-esteem. How did you develop yours?
For most of my 20’s and early 30’s, I had a hard time with my self-esteem, and things easily knocked me down. I realized to be truly joyful in life, it is important to love yourself. Which is why I got intentional about building up my confidence, and still work on it almost daily.
It’s been a long journey to get where I am today, and I still run into challenges, but my confidence is much higher than it was. I use many tools to boost my self-esteem, like:
• A daily meditation to feel grounded and calm throughout my day
• Reiki healing and energy practices to feel more clear-headed and confident
• Creative methods such as Art Journaling or writing to get to the source of an obstacle/emotional trigger
• Dancing to an upbeat song before a situation gives me more strength
• Saying positive mantras to reassure myself everything will be okay
• Remembering back to difficult challenges and how I got through them also gives me confidence in a fearful moment
I have also learned that practice does bring confidence, so by just doing something a few times, I feel like I can do it again. For example, I used to have a huge fear of public speaking. But after I joined a Toastmasters group and gave speeches a few times in there, I was more self-assured when I volunteered to give presentations in front of other groups.
See the full article here: boldjourney.com/meet-emma-mitchell/
