when you already know

Sep 25

Dear Reader,

How many times have you said, “I knew it”? You felt the hesitation, or sensed the direction to go, but talked yourself out of it.

This happens more often than we like to admit, and most of us are quick to override these internal signals. We tell ourselves to be practical, to make the choice that looks best on paper, to take the path others expect of us. We wait for more proof. We give more weight to fear than to trust. And yet, if we’re honest, the sense of what was true was already there.

In the therapy room, this shows up often. Someone will share about a decision that feels impossible, only to realize they already sense what they want, they’re just afraid to embrace the change that needs to be made. It may be the relationship they have outgrown, or the job that continues to drain them.

Intuition isn’t a special skill some people have and others don’t. It’s the accumulation of lived experience, the signals of the body, the pattern-recognition of the mind, and the small voice that doesn’t need to be loud because it already belongs to you.

Living from this place doesn’t make life easier, but it does help you to feel more aligned with yourself. It asks us to listen beneath the fear and pressure, and to honor the gut feelings we carry, even before we can fully explain them.

Yours in the journey,