When Your Instinct Is Actually Just Your Trauma in a Vision Board

How to tell if that burning impulse is your soul calling, or just your wound screaming for proof you matter 🐅✨🔥

What if what you’re calling instinct is actually just your nervous system doing interpretive dance while screaming “VALIDATE ME DADDY” into the void? Yeah. Sit with that for a second. 🫠

Because here’s the thing nobody tells you about “following your gut”: sometimes your gut is a LIAR. A beautiful, convincing, Oscar-worthy liar who learned all her tricks from your childhood trauma and now cosplays as intuition at spiritual retreats.

You think you’re being “authentic” and “trusting your inner guidance” when really? You’re just letting your unhealed shit drive the car while your soul is duct-taped in the trunk screaming through a gag.

So you text him at 2 AM because you “need closure.” 📱You say yes to the job that makes your stomach feel like it swallowed a bag of angry bees. 🐝 You book the flight because sitting still feels like death by a thousand Pinterest quotes. You post the thing, send the message, make the move… all while your ego is doing backflips going “SEE? I’M EVOLVED! I’M …