listen to your gut

Part one of therapy: listen to your gut. My gut instinct has never really let me down, but I have grown accustomed to ignoring it, mostly because of the influence of people in my life telling me I am “too emotional” and need to mitigate this nature with logic and reason. On Wednesday, my therapist and I discerned that I have stopped listening to my gut instinct entirely because of this. Today I had a day off. When I woke up, I thought to myself, “I should get up and get ready and go to Golden Gate Park, write a bit while lying in the sunshine, and then come back here and go to Flax and stare at the pretty pens.” I thought this because this is my standard procedure during days off; this is what I think I should do when I have a day...

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