Full Confidence

Christen Parker-Yarnal

In my early 20’s, I was sitting in the kitchen of my future in-laws (unbeknownst to me), sharing the dilemma of my uncertain life direction, when my future mother-in-law put her hands around her coffee cup and said, “Well, I know you’ll make the right decision.” 

What? How in the world could she know that? Really, she just met me, and suddenly she has all this unfounded confidence in my decision-making skills! 

​I think about this moment very very often, this moment of gratuitous confidence in my executive functioning skills. It felt like an unexpected announcement: “Good morning, Christen, this is YOUR life and YOU are capable of running it!” ​

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