You've Been Underestimating Yourself

Time to break up with victim mentality

You’ve been underestimating yourself.​
For far too long.

I meet so many of you—
bright, fierce,
​holy human beings
who have weathered storms
unfathomable.

You grew up in chaos,
through the impossible hallways of childhood,
and still—
you rose.​
Your heart pulled lifeward
with a strength that borders on heroic.

And yet—
so often I hear doubt​
echoing in your chest,
a quiet erosion of self-love,​
a core disbelief in your own brilliance.

Listen.
I get it.
I’ve done it too.

I was born into war.
Exiled as a refugee.
Marked as a foreigner.
Bullied, abused, neglected.

I’ve told myself—
I was too sensitive,
too fragile,
too delicate for this world.

And sometimes I still feel that way—
like you may feel that way—
but feeling does not equal truth.
Not the whole truth.

The truth is this:
we are not as fragile as the stories we tell.
We are not as powerless as the pain insists.

So I ask you—

How much longer
will you rehearse the role of victim?

Aren’t you tired?​
Doesn’t your soul want more in this life?
What lengths would you go to—
to live in peace,​
​power,​
​joy,​
​presence?

How much longer
are you going to play these tapes?
The broken records of not-enoughness,
the looping soundtracks of defeat.

Here’s the secret:
when you begin to understand your patterns,
you are no longer their prisoner.

You can pause.​
You can choose.​
You can interrupt the old programming—
mid-sentence, mid-thought—
and rewrite it.

You can write a story that loves you back.

And so I invite you—
​begin today.​
Choose one small act of defiance
against the old lie.

One step toward the life
your soul has been aching for.

Do it as a promise—
to the brilliance​
already alive in you.

With reverence,
Fereshta

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