Trusting Your Own Perception

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

One of the most damaging things that can happen to a person is to have their perception consistently denied. To be told: that didn't happen. You're imagining things. You're too sensitive. You're overreacting.

When this happens repeatedly — especially in childhood, especially by people we depend on — we learn not to trust our own perception. We learn to defer to others' version of reality. We learn to doubt the evidence of our own experience.

Rebuilding trust in your own perception is slow work. It requires noticing when you override your own knowing. It requires practicing the small act of believing what you actually see, feel, and experience.

Your perception is not perfect. No one's is. But it is yours, and it is real, and it deserves to be taken seriously — by you, first of all.

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