I didn’t listen to my gut because I didn’t love myself. It’s a sentence we hear often, but what does it actually mean?
It means feeling something is off but questioning yourself instead of trusting it. It means dismissing the signals your intuition sends because you don’t believe you have the ability to recognize truth. When you don’t trust yourself, you give others the power to define reality for you. And sometimes, you even hand them your doubts—only for them to use them against you.
You don’t know who someone is beyond their words. Their actions will always tell you more. But if you silence your intuition and let someone else lead, you become a passenger in your own life. I’ve learned this the hard way. Looking back, the decisions I regret most came from ignoring what my gut was screaming at me. The moments I listened, even when I didn’t have proof, were the ones that saved me.
Your intuition is your GPS. It won’t always show you the easiest route, but it will take you where you’re meant to be. Ignoring it doesn’t mean you won’t get there—it just means you’ll take a longer, more painful road.
I used to regret certain connections, but now I see them differently. Every wrong turn led me here. To knowing myself better. To understanding people at a level I never did before. To valuing my time as my currency.
To some, you’re a tool. To others, you’re a gift. But how they see you has nothing to do with you. What matters is that you trust yourself enough to hear your own voice.
If you’re on the fence about something, if something deep inside you is speaking but the noise in your head is drowning it out—pause. Listen. Your gut knows. You just have to reconnect with yourself enough to hear it.
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