Have you ever finally gotten clear about what you want—only to start questioning yourself the moment your decision becomes real? 

You knew you needed to say no.

You knew you wanted the opportunity.

You knew the relationship needed to change.

You knew you needed to rest.

And then someone had a reaction. Your body got activated. The consequences became real.

Suddenly you're wondering:

Wait. Was I wrong?

In this episode of Your Yes Filled Life, Brenda explores an important distinction:

Hearing yourself is not the same thing as trusting yourself.

Because knowing what's right for you doesn't guarantee that honoring it will feel comfortable.

Brenda shares a recent personal experience where a decision she knew was right for her could still disappoint someone she cared about. She also shares POWER participant Stephanie White's experience of building something far more valuable than perfect certainty: lived evidence that she can pause, listen to herself and stay with herself when things feel difficult.

You'll explore the difference between new information and new feelings, why discomfort after a decision doesn't automatically mean the decision was wrong, and what self-trust can look like when the wobble inevitably comes.

In this episode:

• Why hearing yourself and trusting yourself are different capacities
• How other people's reactions can make you question something you previously knew
• The difference between receiving new information and experiencing new feelings
• Why discomfort isn't automatically evidence that you've chosen incorrectly
• What it means to build lived evidence of your own self-trust
• Why the pause matters
• How a more supportive inner dialogue changes what happens when you're activated
• Why repeated practice—and being witnessed while you practice—matters
• A simple question to use when you begin second-guessing yourself

Try this

When you notice yourself questioning something you previously felt clear about, ask:

Has my knowing changed—or has honoring what I know become uncomfortable?

You don't have to force an answer.

Just notice.

POWER: Self-Trust for Empaths

Hearing yourself matters.

But staying connected to yourself when real life responds to your choice? That's where practice matters.

POWER includes six weeks of foundational work followed by 12 months of coaching, practice and integration support, including three live POWER cohorts, community support, coaching and Q&A, somatic work, breathwork, lifetime curriculum and replays, and a private 1:1 session during your first cohort.

The Fall cohort begins September 29 and enrollment closes September 28.

Learn more at https://www.brendawinkle.com/power 

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