50. Learning to Trust Yourself Again After Years of Self Doubt
Reframing Neurodiversity · Melissa Jackson
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Show Notes
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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