Occasionally, we all feel anxious. Both positive and negative circumstances fuel anxiety. 

Betina decided to take her work to a new level. She was a personal shopper for a high end department store. She had a large group of men and women who relied on her to help them create their wardrobes and to select gifts on their behalf.  She was beginning to find her position constraining, both from where she could source her selections as well as the income she could make. If she went out on her own, she would have more room for artistic expression and business creativity but she would also have to worry of not having a steady flow of business. Betina pressed beyond her comfort zone professionally, socially, and emotionally when she decided to start her own business. Contacting her former clients involved much anxiety but she found out most wanted to continue working with her. They too were pressing beyond their comfort zones because the big department store they always...

The opposite of self-trust is self-doubt.

Biological characteristics that we are born with, such as being prone to anxiety, mix with our significant life experiences to to contribute to determining why we may be more self-doubting than trusting or the reverse!

Examples of significant life experiences that may influence the way we see ourselves and the extent to which we trust or doubt ourselves:
Frequent moving

Parents divorce,

Substance abuse in the family,

Exposure to trauma, such as sexual or physical abuse, growing up with a mentally ill parent, or experiencing homelessness, poverty, or abandonment.

or 
Certain experiences arising in connection with your race, age, economic status, sexual or gender identity, culture, religion, and so forth.

Events need not be dramatic to illicit self doubt.

Your position in a family such as being the only child not to attend college in a family of siblings with graduate degrees or being unpopular with kids at school.

The messages...