Working with insecurity.

Insecurity will show up, in all of us, from Frank Sinatra to Tom Hanks, to you and me, to some degree.

We have little control over the feeling. It will show up when the limbic part of our brain senses threat, whether or not the threat is real or not.

What we have control over is how we act when the insecurity shows up. Do we let it take over and define our actions or can we be generous despite the feeling?

That's the work of the professional, to do the emotional labour of showing up as secure and generous, irrespective of how we are feeling.