How I Learned to Trust Myself When Religion Taught Me Not To

Cultivating your connection to the inner guru

Where did you first learn to trust yourself and the validity of your ideas? I'll wait.

Trust is like a muscle. You can train it to be strong or neglect it, so it becomes weak.

If you have a background in a high-control religion like Christianity, you likely learned the opposite: that you should trust what your leaders say, and what the Bible teaches, over your inner guidance. My indoctrination into the Christian faith discouraged me from relying on my inner wisdom and what made perfect sense to me and encouraged me to trust what they were teaching me and what the Bible said, even when those messages seemed patently ridiculous to me.

I'm offering a practical guide with three simple practices that will support you with trusting yourself and turning inward for the answers you seek. My mission is to point you back to yourself. So many of us have allowed our connection to our divine source to become weak because we have placed our agency outside of ourselves. I intend to support you in training and strengthening your connection to your divine source—your inner guru—so you no longer feel vulnerable to forces outside of you that are seeking to control your mind and your life.

As I always say, everything in this life is made up. It's all a fabrication designed to forward someone else's agenda. You are free to embrace what I'm offering or discard it altogether. I want everyone to find the path to spiritual liberation because freedom is something that everyone needs and desires.

Here are three simple practices that you can use to strengthen your connection to your divine source, your inner guru, and trust yourself implicitly.