Slower, Wealthier, Happier

Good morning, beautiful,

I want to talk to you about trust. Not the kind that gets talked about casually, but the deep, steady kind that lives in your body when you finally know how to hear yourself.

For a long time, I thought trusting myself meant being confident in my decisions. But what I learned over time is that trust actually begins earlier than that. It begins with being able to recognize your own voice.

That part took me a while.

I had so many voices around me. Wise voices. Loving voices. Experienced voices. People who cared deeply and wanted the best for me. Their guidance was not wrong, but it was loud. And somewhere along the way, their voices became easier to hear than my own.

I realized one day that I could clearly tell you what everyone else thought I should do, but I struggled to name what I wanted. Not because I did not know, but because I had not been listening.

Trust started to rebuild for me when I gave myself permission to quiet everything else. Not forever. Not in rejection. Just long enough to hear myself again. Long enough to let my own thoughts finish their sentences. Long enough to feel what my body was responding to before my mind tried to translate it for someone else.

That was uncomfortable at first.

When you have spent years valuing input, it can feel strange to pause it. Almost disrespectful. Almost selfish. But it was necessary. I needed space to hear my own voice without interruption, without comparison, without immediate correction.

And when I finally did, I recognized it.

My voice was calm. Clear. Steady. It was not frantic or demanding. It did not shout. It simply knew. And the more I listened to it, the more confident it became.

Trust did not arrive all at once. It built itself slowly. Choice by choice. Moment by moment. Each time I honored what I heard instead of overriding it, the relationship deepened. Each time I followed my own knowing and saw that I was safe, that I was capable, that I could handle the outcome, trust settled in a little more.

What surprised me most was how my voice grew stronger once I stopped doubting it. It did not compete with the other important voices in my life. It did not need to. It simply became the one I checked in with first.

And that changed everything.

Trusting yourself does not mean you stop valuing wisdom or advice. It means you know how to filter it. It means you can listen, consider, and still choose what feels true for you. It means you stop being afraid of your own authority.

You are allowed to trust the voice that lives inside you. You are allowed to let it lead. You are allowed to believe that your knowing is valid, even when it sounds quieter than everything else.

This year, let yourself hear yourself. Let your voice rise without apology. Let it matter as much as it deserves to.

You have lived enough life to trust what you know.

Love Always,

Your most magical self ✨