Don't Believe Everything You Think (Your Mind is a Storyteller)

When I was growing up, I was the quiet one in the family. I observed, listened, and I depended on how I felt—the way children do, before the world teaches them not to trust themselves.

I would see a discrepancy in the way I was talked to and how it felt. I noticed they believed with strength what they were saying to me, but for me, it didn't land. I remember thinking, this doesn't sound right.
Many times, I felt as if I was living in a bubble of secrets and not necessarily lies, but not the truth. I became even more silent as the years went on and tripped my way through friendships. I would often wonder, where is my tribe?

But somewhere along the way, with all the input from others, I forgot. I forgot that I knew.
What I learned over time is that everyone has their own version of truth. What they believe, they believe completely. They trusted their sense of things, and I trusted mine. Neither was wrong—we were just tuning into different frequencies.

The thing is that our minds create stories. We fill in gaps. We make assumptions based on our own experiences, our own wounds, our own lens. And then we believe those stories as if they're facts.
I spent years believing the stories my mind told me about myself. Too sensitive. Too quiet. Missing something. But those were just thoughts. Not truth. Just thoughts.

Everyone's navigating this same thing—trying to figure out what's real and what's just the story their mind is spinning. Some people trust what they're told. Some trust what they feel. Some trust what they think. And sometimes all those things conflict with each other.

Learning to question my own thoughts—to notice when my mind is making up a story versus when I'm sensing something true—that's been my work. And it's ongoing work. Because the mind is sneaky. It's convincing. It sounds so sure of itself.

But just because I think something doesn't make it true. And just because someone else thinks something doesn't make it true either. We're all just doing our best to navigate our own inner knowing.