For so long, I’d been pushing down my inner voice, that instinct that was trying to scream at me that things weren’t right, that I wasn’t okay. I slammed the door on her. I thought she would talk me out of opportunity and success, and that I would regret passing them up. She was trying to save me, but I didn’t see it. I think I silenced her so much that she went quiet. I lost track of who I was and what I wanted. To this day, I have to work very hard to hear her.
