Truths on Self-Confidence nobody Told you About
Am I Self-Confident?
We can affirm that I am. Most of the time.
I believe in myself - my inherent value, talents, and ability to make great things happen.
Sometimes, I fall off that wagon - big time. Life throws me a punch and I doubt myself, I go back - even if for just a moment or a short season - to a disempowered place of victimhood, lack of self-trust, and amnesia. But, make no mistake, I know my way back home.
You can tell when you´ve gone astray - your health suffers from a lack of self-confidence and so does your level of joy and your ability to make great stuff - your stuff - happen.
I fall off the wagon. But I know there´s a way back into it.
I believe in the assets that bring me back home - to a place of Self-Confidence - because I have proof of them. It´s not a Vanity Fair Parade where I praise myself because I can - it´s an actionable adventure where I´ve witnessed, firsthand, the person I am, how I behave, and what I can do. Concrete reasons, not compliments or wishful thinking, make me believe I can trust myself. I have reasons to feel self-confident.
It didn´t start out like that, though.
In my childhood, I was shy. Nobody will believe it but I was. Still am.
Although I danced, sang, and acted compulsively - me and my sister used to present theatrical sketches to our peers in kindergarten, alongside our Classical Ballet recitals -, I was the last kid on the row in classrooms; I was silent and introverted; and I always felt like an outcast, a unicorn, someone who didn´t fit in, no matter where I went.
I must have looked invisible or stupid, maybe both, because teachers doubted my intelligence and studying abilities. When the results of my exams came, I was accused of "stealing or copying information" from other students:
- You didn´t do this exam, Joana. It´s impossible. Whom did you copy from?- A teacher once told me, referring to an exam she graded as an A+
I felt humiliated, bursting with anger. The injustice hurt me - my little chest pressed against a sharp knife. I knew I hadn´t copied or stolen from anyone; I knew I was the only one responsible for that A+.
But what killed me the most was the assumption that I, the dumb outcast who never dared to open her mouth, couldn´t be bright. That cut even deeper, straight into my core where Self-Value is built.
It took me years to recover from that childhood - from that and other wounds -; and to understand, in fact, what Self-Confidence is all about.
The tables turned when I started to study Egyptian Dance. I don´t claim it because it sounds good - I claim it because it´s true.
As I usually say, there was a Joana before Egyptian Dance and a Joana after it. Everything in me changed - and that included my level of Self-Confidence.
Me and my sister at our first home in the suburbs of the suburbs of Lisbon❤
Me, as a little girl, posing for the picture with my Ballet attire❤
The beginning of my journey - one of my study trips to Egypt❤
Image from one of the first Egyptian Dance workshops I ministered in Lisbon, two years before moving to Egypt to start my career❤
Glimpse from a video clip I featured in - as a dancer and a model - in Egypt❤
Performing, with my orchestra, in Egypt❤
Performing with my orchestra in Cairo❤
Photographed by Mahmoud Reda in his downtown studio in Cairo❤
Performing around the World❤
Teaching around the World❤
Making a stand on stage (theatrical show in Slovenia)❤
Rejoicing in/with the Life I´ve co-created❤
Today, more than 20 years after that first encounter and burst of transformation; after having accumulated personal and professional knowledge and experience in this field, I know exactly WHERE THAT SELF-CONFIDENCE COMES FROM & HOW EGYPTIAN DANCE ALLOWS IT TO FLOURISH.
And because Self-Confidence is a work in progress, I keep revisiting it; rebuilding it, when necessary; and using Egyptian Dance - this ancient magical practice that lives in my bones - to expand it.
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