03 What Happens When You Ignore Your Truth
We all learn, in one way or another, how to push down our thoughts.
“Don’t make a big deal out of it.”
“Keep the peace.”
“It’s not worth the fight.”
But ignoring your thoughts doesn’t make them disappear. It only drives them deeper underground, where they continue to shape your feelings, choices, and relationships in ways you may not even notice.
When you ignore your thoughts, you silence your own voice. And when your voice is silenced, your needs go unheard not only by others, but by you.
The Language of Your Inner World
Your thoughts are not random noise. They are the language of your inner world. Your body translating sensations and emotions into words you can understand.
Anxiety in the chest might become the thought: “Something’s wrong.”
Loneliness in the gut might whisper: “Nobody really sees me.”
Anger burning in the muscles might translate as: “I can’t take this anymore.”
When you dismiss these thoughts, you disconnect from the very signals meant to guide you back to your truth. You cut off the conversation between your mind, body, and heart.
How Disconnection Shows Up
When you turn away from your thoughts, it often looks like:
Letting others decide for you. You hand over choices because it feels easier than dealing with the tension of listening to yourself.
Abandoning your own desires. You sacrifice what you want to keep the peace, convincing yourself that harmony is worth more than honesty.
Feeling lost in your own skin. Without listening inward, your body no longer feels like home. It becomes a place of uncertainty rather than belonging.
At first, these patterns may feel like survival. And in truth, they often begin that way. Silencing yourself can protect you in unsafe environments. But when it becomes a habit long after the danger has passed, it costs you something essential: your self-trust.
Survival vs. Wholeness
Let’s be clear: this isn’t weakness. Silencing your thoughts is a strategy, a way of getting through. But survival strategies aren’t meant to be permanent. What once protected you will eventually suffocate you if you never learn another way.
Because no matter how much you love, trust, or depend on others, they cannot be you. They cannot know the nuance of your desires, the texture of your fears, the shape of your longings. Only you can live your life fully aligned.
When you ignore yourself, you abandon the one person who will always be with you. You.
Reclaiming the Voice Within
So what’s the alternative? It begins with turning back toward your thoughts not as absolute truths, but as invitations. Instead of suppressing them, you can learn to meet them with curiosity:
“Why does this thought keep showing up?”
“What feeling is living underneath it?”
“What need is asking to be acknowledged?”
Even asking these questions cracks the door back open. They remind you that your inner voice matters, that it is safe to listen, and that reclaiming your thoughts is how you reclaim yourself.
Takeaway: Ignoring your thoughts is a form of self-abandonment. But when you choose to listen, even imperfectly, even hesitantly, you restore the bridge between your body, mind, and heart. And on that bridge is where self trust is rebuilt.
REFLECTION
Take a moment to journal or voice note your answers:
Where have you abandoned your own needs in order to please others?
How does your body feel when you silence yourself?
Who benefits when you ignore your thoughts, and who loses?
Practice
Identify one situation right now where you’ve let someone else’s preferences override your own.
Write down: What do I truly want in this situation?
Circle it.
Even if you don’t act on it yet, naming your truth is a powerful first step in reclaiming your self trust.
Integration
Each time you notice yourself defaulting to someone else’s decision, pause and ask:
“What do I want here?”
You don’t have to act right away. Just acknowledging your truth prevents self abandonment.
