Turning the Corner on Confidence

By Mimi Nichter

After pushing the send button, my excitement lasted for all of thirty seconds. It was quickly replaced by twinges of doubt. What had I done?

I’d written my first essay and submitted it to Newsweek. Well, not exactly my first submission since I’d published several academic books and over seventy journal articles. But this was different — this piece was based on personal experience not research findings. Having spent years avoiding sentences that began with “I”, an essay r...