Reason number 32 why I decided to make self- care a priority this year is because…
Self-care develops my intuition.
We’ve all heard the saying “Trust your gut” but how many of us actually do?
Is your gut healthy enough to trust or is it filled with toxicity?
Intuition is defined as “the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. A thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning.”
We begin discovering “our voice” in our childhood. During our development over the lifespan, we are getting reinforcements from our parents, teachers, friends, family and society that we are either making good or bad decisions.
Too many bad decisions can cripple us developmentally. It may cause us to depend on the feedback or approval from others for both major and minor decisions.
Don’t get me wrong, feedback is good, but when you have to DEPEND on it in order to move forward that is crippling.
How can one overcome this? If you know me by now then you know that my answer includes self-care with a side of therapy.
How can you trust yourself or “your gut” if you don’t know who you are or you don’t recognize your own voice? Self-care allows the time and space for personal exploration of thoughts, feelings, values and interests. All of these ideas regarding who you are can be reinforced in a positive and productive manner in therapy.
One thing that I know for sure is that you must be willing to do the work. You must be willing to try to embark on the road of self-discovery. You must be willing to honor yourself as is, but strive to be your best every day. You must be willing to heal and let go of any and every self-defeating thought as they are no longer aligned with who you are and who you are becoming. You must want to spend time with yourself. You must feed yourself positive messaging that affirms you are capable of success in whatever form that looks like for you. You must affirm that you are worthy of good things. You must affirm that you are capable of making good decisions with the available information that you have. You must affirm that there is no such thing as failure only another opportunity to learn something new about yourself.
This may not be easy and it definitely won’t happen overnight, but it is possible and you don’t necessarily have to do it on your own.
Listen to your gut. What is it saying? Do you trust it? Learn to trust it through self-care and practice.
Be well,