When You Stop Listening To Yourself

There’s a moment most of us don’t notice.

Not when things fall apart.
Not when something dramatic happens.

It’s the moment you feel something —
and decide it would be easier not to.

You explain it away.
You override it.
You tell yourself it’s not a big deal.

Once doesn’t matter.
But repetition does.

Over time, you stop checking in.
You stop asking what you think.
You stop noticing what your body already knows.

Not because you’re weak.
Because you adapted.

You learned that listening to yourself could complicate things.
Slow things down.
Make other people uncomfortable.

So you became efficient.
Agreeable.
Reasonable.

That’s often where internal trust starts to fade — not in crisis, but in convenience.