My story- My most recent experience dealing with insecurity and negative thoughts: While writing about my experiencing the Miss Back to the 50s pageant, (those posts are still forthcoming.) I couldn’t help but think about some of my feelings during the experience. One thing that came up repeatedly was feelings of inadequacy and insecurity. Feeling like I wasn’t a real pinup and that what I was doing wasn’t good enough. These feelings surfaced especially when I saw some of the other women and their outfits and hairstyles. I also had some of these feelings while preparing for the contest and had a hard time imagining myself winning. This was not…