Bethany Blaine
2 days ago5 min read
Let’s be real for a second. We’ve all had moments where we snap faster than we meant to. When we dig our heels in. Get sharp with someone we actually care about. Sometimes it looks like impatience. Sometimes defensiveness. Sometimes that familiar line of criticism you promised yourself you’d outgrown. Here’s the part most people don’t hear often enough: Those moments don’t mean you’re a bad person. They mean your system reacted before your awareness caught up. That’s not a mo
When people say they don’t trust themselves, what they usually mean is: “I can’t tell which voice to listen to.” We’re taught to “listen to our intuition,” but we’re never taught how to tell it apart from our thoughts . So, everything gets thrown together like kitchen sink cookies. Fear sounds like protective guidance. Urgency sounds like intuition. Overthinking feels like decision-making. And that’s where things get messy . What Confusion Actually Feels Like Confusion doesn’
Let’s go beyond the noise for a moment— and into the undercurrent that created it. This undercurrent didn’t just show up one day. It didn’t build our systems without first shaping our psyche. Before it became a system or became a hierarchy... Before it became a word thrown across timelines and headlines— It was a wound. A sidestep in humankind. But no step is a misstep, only a path of discovery . I’m speaking on patriarchy . Stay with me. It started as a survival response. A




