Listening to Your Body

Grief, growth, and awareness taught me a simple truth: my body notices before my mind catches up. It whispers when boundaries are crossed, when energy shifts, when something isn’t aligned. Listening isn’t just self-care - It’s clarity in action.

Sometimes your body knows long before your mind catches up. It registers tension, unease, and disappointment in ways you can’t ignore - the tightening in your chest, the heaviness in your stomach, the quiet pull to step back. That’s your intuition speaking.

I’ve learned that listening to your body isn’t just about physical health - it’s about emotional awareness. It’s about noticing the emotional signals, the subtle alarms that something isn’t aligned. For me, it came as quiet, persistent ache when I realised that some people I relied on couldn’t consistently show up for me. Not because I did anything wrong, not because I wasn’t enough - but because their patterns, their grief, their priorities, simply didn’t include me in the way I once hoped.

That realisation is lonely. It stings. It’s disappointing. And yet, beneath the ache, there’s a strange calm - a clarity. Because when your body is telling you something, It’s inviting you to honour your truth. To protect your peace. To stop apologising for your needs. To recognise that not everyone is meant to hold your energy - and that acceptance is it’s own kind of healing.

Listening to your body has taught me that boundaries aren’t walls; they’re acts of self-respect. They are the quiet, firm way of saying: I see you. I feel this. I will move in a way that honours my health, my heart, and my clarity.

And in that, there is freedom. Freedom from chasing, from explaining, from carrying weight that isn’t yours. Freedom to be still, to step back, and to rise at your own rhythm.

“Your body often knows before your mind admits it - the ache, the heaviness, the pull to step back. Listening to it isn’t weakness, it’s wisdom. It’s how you protect your peace.”