Michelle Obama talks about the question that has haunted her throughout her life: am I good enough? Despite raising children, writing books, and building a library with Barack, she never had time to ask herself that until recently. Therapy and reflection over the past few years have helped her find an answer.
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There is still always the sense of, Am I good enough? Really? Even now? I think it's there in so many of us.
Well, you think, Am I good enough? You've created and accomplished so much, not only professionally, but personally.
But is it enough? And that's the work that I'm doing. Like, if it's not enough now, I'm telling myself and my therapist, then it won't be enough. So now I have to determine for myself, because this is all an internal conversation, that I'm good. Right? I just really now have the time to do that work. 'Cause when you're climbing, slaying the dragons, you're just feeling the feelings. You don't have time to assess it. Raising kids, getting through hard times, writing books, doing book tours, working on the library with my husband. The decade that I was talking about that just went by, just like a flash. When was there time to reflect and work on that stuff?
Do the healing work.
Do the healing work, because after all that work, there still is healing from it. that was, you know, that was a mighty experience that we had, right?
Yeah, it's a lot to unpack.
In these last years, I've been unpacking it, and I'm becoming better with my choices, feeling the most confident in myself and the most settled in that question of, am I good enough? And I'm finally starting to answer it. Yeah, I think I'm, I think I'm there.
