As I get to know myself, one of the recurring themes I encounter is the importance of trusting your inner voice: your intuition, gut, or inner feeling. 

There have been many times when I have felt uncomfortable about a situation. Still, I continued to engage with it because I didn’t understand how to validate my feelings or identify the cause or root of these emotions. 

I have learned to process my feelings as they arise, which helps prevent the frustration that I would otherwise face.

• I acknowledge to myself that I feel unsettled. Then I take the time to figure out the cause of these feelings. This process may take days or weeks to happen.
• Once I figure out the root cause, I figure out what I need to do to centre myself again. This may be slightly changing my routine or expressing how I am feeling to someone. When it comes to speaking up about how the situation made me feel, I have made significant progress. I went from not addressing the situation and building up resentment to speaking up and feeling extremely uncomfortable while expressing my feelings.
• Then I wait to see if those steps helped or if I need to engage further to reach a solution. This requires regular self-check-ins to spot the changes quickly.

Trusting your gut is an ongoing process that leads to a point where you feel incredibly comfortable with your decisions. You can achieve this by learning about yourself through dates, journaling, reflection, or meditation. You can accomplish this by learning about yourself through activities such as dating, journaling, reflection, or meditation. You can even take it a step further and get the dating card games and play them with yourself. You would be surprised how much you learn when you take the opportunity to spend time with yourself to discover who you are as an individual.