Do you trust your instincts?

Yes… I do trust my instincts. But I trust the version of my instincts that have been shaped by wisdom.

Did I trust my instincts as a brand new graduate nurse? No!

As a season nurse of 10 years do I trust my instincts now? Absolutely!

Instinct is powerful, but instinct without growth can be misleading.

For a long time, my instincts were filtered through:

anxiety, trauma, hypervigilance, immaturity, and inexperience.

Those things can make you react, not discern.

They can make you check the alarm instead of the patient — whether in nursing, relationships, or life.

But with time, reflection, and healing, I’ve learned something important:

Instinct becomes reliable when it has been trained.

Instinct becomes trustworthy when it has been matured.

Instinct also becomes accurate when it is paired with wisdom.

As I grow, I’ve learned to separate:

-fear from intuition

– trauma memories from present truth – -emotional triggers from discernment -immaturity from insight

So yes — I trust my instincts.

But only because I’ve done the work to understand them.

And I also leave room for them to be corrected, refined, or reinterpreted as I continue to heal.

Because part of maturity is knowing that even your instincts can grow.

Instinct isn’t perfect.

But instinct partnered with wisdom?

That’s where clarity lives.

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