I have heard a million times that “a woman's intuition is her strongest asset,” but what I didn’t expect was how true this statement would prove to be and the influence it would have on my life.
There’s a strange shift in your body after you’ve trusted the wrong person too many times. Around 16, I started noticing this uneasy sort of feeling in my stomach when someone said something that did not feel quite right. There would be a certain off-putting energy in the air in conversations with people I had grown up with or partners that were so longstanding that I couldn’t imagine life without them.
I started moving through my day-to-day life with hesitation–the kind you don’t notice until you catch yourself analyzing body language, thinking about conversations that happen in rooms you weren’t in, and putting more emphasis on what someone doesn’t say than what they do.
More times than I can recall, my intuition has taken me to new heights and helped me escape harmful situations before I knew where they would lead. It has told me when to walk away, when to ask questions, and when something was not meant for me–even when I could not yet explain why. For a long time, I thought this instinct was a weakness that made me overly cautious or too sensitive. I wondered whether I was overthinking, being too dramatic, or feeling the need to give people the benefit of the doubt despite every alarm in my body was going off.
I have learned that intuition does not always arrive as a clear answer. It is the pause before sending a text, the sudden urge to leave a party, the feeling that something has changed in a friendship, or the realization that you are constantly making excuses for someone else’s behavior.
It is the little voice in your head that tells you to get out before you have all the evidence to explain why.
As women, we are often told from a young age to question our instincts; to be polite, forgiving, and avoid being difficult. We are taught to second-guess the uneasy feeling in our stomach because we do not want to be wrong. There is something incredibly empowering and comforting about learning to trust yourself and your instincts. It taught me that I no longer have to wait until I am hurt to know when something does not feel right. I urge every woman to learn to trust that quiet voice within her—the one that knows her worth, recognizes when something is wrong, and reminds her that she is never too much. Our intuition is not something to fear or dismiss; it is a strength that has been within us all along, only now we choose to hear and listen to it.
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