Hi my lovely friends, 💛
I want to share something today that I’ve been holding close to my chest for a long time… because honestly, it scared me to even say it out loud.
When I first started building my Calm & Confident Anxiety Recovery Course, I wasn’t confident.
I wasn’t brave.
I wasn’t “ready.”
I was terrified.
Not terrified of failing.
Not terrified of the work.
But terrified of something so much heavier:
What if I wasn’t helpful enough?
What if I wasn’t valuable enough?
What if everything I created… still wasn’t good enough?
That fear hit me every single day I worked on it.
I’d write a lesson and immediately wonder if anyone would care.
I’d design a PDF and hear that little voice whisper,
“Who do you think you are? Why would anyone listen to you?”
I’d look at the modules and question whether I was capable of making something that could genuinely change someone’s day… or life.
And here’s the truth I haven’t said publicly until now:
There were moments I almost stopped.
Moments I shut off my computer and walked away.
Moments I convinced myself I wasn’t qualified, wasn’t skilled enough, wasn’t anything enough.
But I kept going — not because the fear left, but because I realized something important:
The fear was never proof I wasn’t good enough.
The fear was proof that I cared.
I cared enough to worry about getting it right.
I cared enough to show up even when I doubted myself.
I cared enough to pour my entire heart, my 20 years of lived anxiety experience, and every lesson I painfully learned into something I prayed would help someone else feel less alone.
💛 You can read my 20-year anxiety story here.
Somewhere in the middle of all the doubts and late-night rewrites…
the fear shifted.
It didn’t disappear — anxiety rarely does — but it softened.
It turned into purpose.
And that purpose turned into the course I have today.
I’m still vulnerable sharing this.
I still worry if I’m helpful enough.
I still wonder if I’m “doing it right.”
But the messages, the clicks, the subscribers, the people coming back to re-read the lessons… they remind me that what I built does matter.
If you’re building something right now — a dream, a goal, a habit, a new version of yourself — please hear me:
You don’t need to be fearless to be worthy.
You don’t need to be perfect to be helpful.
And you don’t need every answer to make a difference in someone’s life.
You just have to keep going.
And you are.
💛 You can explore my Calm & Confident Anxiety Recovery Course here.
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Thank you for being here.
Thank you for reading my words.
Thank you for letting me be imperfect, anxious, and still trying.
We’re all in this together. 💛
Megan
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In my opinion, the very best way to learn is to teach! I’m always “learning” so much from my teaching my clients! Now, I do have at least a background of things I teach but I think “teaching and learning” is so important that I don’t think we need to know “everything” (impossible anyway) about a subject before we start teaching others! As a matter of fact, I feel that would be a poor method! Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely — I couldn’t agree more. 😊 I’ve found the same thing on my own journey with anxiety. Teaching what I’ve learned has actually made me grow so much, and half the time I feel like I’m learning right alongside the people I’m trying to help.
None of us have to know everything before we start sharing what we’ve lived through — sometimes the most meaningful guidance comes from experience, compassion, and being willing to keep learning as we go.
Very well said! Thanks!