Doubt is a Sneaky Traitor

Nicki Cavender
2 min readMar 31, 2022

How small things can overcome the power of uncertainty

The back of a little girl’s head, who is looking at two horses off in the distance. Perspective is behind girl.
photo by Nicki Cavender

This morning I woke up and was greeted by a familiar enemy- doubt. It had been with me for weeks, lurking around disguised as procrastination, and then avoidance. Yesterday, doubt wore the veil of exhaustion, and on more than one occasion, it cloaked itself in the guise of excessive research and endless preparation.

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Nicki Cavender

Writer, Reader, Former Therapist. I’m currently in a love/hate relationship with words.