'How Do I Trust Myself?'

Stay curious, get a little greedy, and keep daring to respect and honor your core desires without shame or apology.

Éperdument (To Distraction) (1962), Dorothea Tanning

Dear Polly,

I am almost 50. Your response to What's the Point? was so deeply and wildly and awesomely right and it made me want to ask a question about how you begin to trust yourself as you try to feel your way through your life. I spent most of mine looking to other people for the answers to how I sho…