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From Noise to Knowing: Building Confidence in Your Inner Guidance

• THeresa Marie

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The loudest voice in your life shouldn’t be the algorithm or the loudest person in the room—it should be the steady signal inside you. We’re diving into the real work of hearing and trusting your inner voice, moving beyond ego’s recycled fears to the clear guidance that helps you choose with courage. Along the way, we define core ideas—trust, inner voice, higher self, and intuition—so you can tell the difference between reactive noise and grounded knowing.

We get practical fast. You’ll learn how to fall in love with silence, use nature as a tuning fork, and read your body’s language as a truth signal. We talk about “hindsight reps” (like the jar you didn’t move or the tire you didn’t fill) and how to turn those misses into confidence. You’ll hear why calm, specific nudges often carry more truth than anxious urgency, why “when in doubt, don’t” saves time and pain, and how pre-authorizing yourself to say no or walk away turns intuition into action. We also explore faith reps—the small asks and tiny follow-throughs that build trust in your spiritual GPS—and the cost of constant noise that dulls your signal.

If you’ve felt looped in life’s cul-de-sacs, this is your map back to coherence. Expect simple, repeatable practices: six minutes of silence in your car, a tech-light nature walk, a quick body check before saying yes, and one immediate action on your next calm nudge. The result is a life with fewer detours and more alignment—less explaining, more living. If this resonates, subscribe, share with a friend who needs it, and leave a review so more people can step out of the noise and back into their knowing. What’s the next small nudge you’re ready to honor?

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There is a voice inside of you that whispers all day long, I feel this is right for me. I know that this is wrong. No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you. Just listen to the voice that speaks inside, and it will help show you what to do. And I welcome you back to Free to Just Be, the podcast empowering humanity to courageously step out of old patterns, matrix programming, heal from childhood traumas, and walk away from false beliefs and give a big old hug to new ways of being. And I hope this finds you in the greatest health with vibrant energy today because you have chosen to accept the full responsibility for your personal body, mind, and soul. Here on Free to Just Be, your host, that's me, Teresa Marie, the ambassador of God's Chi, will attempt to inspire you to truly be who you came here to be. Authentic, free, and aligned with your highest potential. So join me on this transformative journey we're on in Earth School, learning how to rewrite our narratives and live lives of purpose and passion. And if my content is resonating with y'all, please take a moment to smash the like button, leave a comment, subscribe to one of my stations, and share this podcast with others so that we can step up the algorithms and reach more of our brothers and sisters in Humanityville and help us all become free to be who we came here to be. And I welcome you back to a walk away Wednesday, and I open with the incredible author Shell Silverstein's quote about the voice inside of you. And I am continuing my series about authenticity, and we're going through an acrostic with the word authenticity vertically down, and each of the first letters we're we're hitting and we're learning together what truly authenticity looks like. So we've gone through letter A, which is appreciate your divinity, letter U, which is unlocking your inner child, and today for tea, we're gonna talk about trusting your inner voice. And I want to start out by doing some defining because often you know we'll hear things and we'll think we know what it is that we're talking about, but then if you dig a little deeper, you realize, wow, I was completely off, right? And being so important to listen to your inner voice, how do we do that in a world right now that has us so covered up by other voices, the voice of the internet and the news and and your family and your friends and your workplace and and and and and you can feel that there's so many voices out there. How do we ascertain what truly is correct? And it becomes a difficulty, and it is something that we really, really, really need to focus on because the greatest loss truly is losing one's own calling because we were listening to the wrong voices. So if it's that important, then I think it's worthy of a look. So, you know, the voice that we trust the most should be our own. But how do we get there? That's what we're gonna talk about right now. So, first let's talk about the word trust. Trust means reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, and being or the truth of a person or a thing. Being truly confident and having a firm belief. Now, how many of you right now can raise your hand and say that you feel all of that, that you can rely on your own integrity, strength, your abilities, and you're truly confident in yourself. Now, some of us can raise our hand. I'm not raising my hand because I am still building up my own self-confidence. And it's kind of a tragedy, but living on the merry-go-round that we call the matrix, going around and around, loop-de-loop after loop-de-loop, living in cul-de-sac after cul-de-sac and taking sometimes decades before we leave the cul-de-sac and then move down the pike a little bit before we get to the next cul-de-sac. That is the purpose of the matrix. So, how do we get to the place where we trust our inner voice? So, trust is a biggie. All right, so now we're going to talk about what we're going to trust about. What's the definition of an inner voice? It's the inner speech or internal monologue or the stream of language-based. Take note of that, language-based thoughts, feelings, and self-talk that occur silently in your mind. It is a fundamental part of human cognition. What is cognition? The mental process of acquiring knowledge and understanding. So it's a part of the human cognition used for self-reflection, planning, problem solving, and self-regulation. So if we're going to trust in our inner voice, let's take the definition of the inner voice a little further. If we want our inner voice to truly be who we are, our higher self, who we were when we first came here, pure energy, love and light, right? Let's define the higher self. Now, what Webster says is that the higher self is a spiritual concept representing your most authentic, wise, and loving inner guide. Often viewed as an elevated state of consciousness, you have to find your self-consciousness first, or the true eternal self, distinct and separate from ego, and it embodies our greatest potential and purpose. Now that is exactly what Free to Just Be is here to help us all do, including myself. I am very much a student right here in Earth School, just like you. So if we want to get to that place, how do we do it? Now let's also define intuition. Intuition is the ability to understand or know something immediately without conscious reasoning, often experienced as a gut feeling based on unconscious processing of past experiences. Now that's where it gets a little bit gray, because what uses past experiences, if you recall from past episodes, is our ego. Our ego only has the library of our past to draw upon, to keep us safe. We've gone through a difficult situation, and our ego's job is to keep us from that difficult situation. Thus, we have these inner voices saying, Oh, we can't or don't, and then you have all of the childhood traumas, you have uh the experiences of years of programming from the TV, from the schools, you have the propaganda machine, all of that coming together. Again, we go back to the basics of becoming free. It is our job to uncover all the unconscious webs that are over our true voice, our true self, our higher self, our intuition. So today we're going to talk about some of the things that we need to do to get to the place where we have enough confidence that we have begun to scratch our higher self. It doesn't happen overnight, folks. It is a trial and ever thing. And to get to the place where you begin to trust the voice of yourself, which is a critical part of this awakening journey. The first part is to build true confidence in who you are, who you were created to be, the love and light that you are. So having looked at these definitions, let's talk about some of the things that you can do now, that I can do now, the things that I'm walking through, to practice and strengthen our inner voice and our self-confidence in hearing it. So one of the first things that I did way back, oh, you know, I started about 20 years ago. And that is something that I'm still to this day honing. It's it was not a gift given to me. Um, I've had to really work, and I work at it every day, and that is to be still, to learn how to listen. Um literally, the very first tattoo I ever put on my body was the Sanskrit word of listen. And it's on my right forearm so that it's in my face all the time, and yet I still struggle to listen. So that's how important listening is to Theresa Marie. And we need to get to the place where we learn how to listen to more than just the TV, more than Facebook, more than our friends, more than anybody else. We know need to learn how to listen inside. And how did I begin to do that? Well, my favorite place was to go outside and start slow. Begin to listen to the sounds of nature, listen to the wind, it speaks, listen to the trees. Uh they'll talk to you as well. Listen to birds, listen to uh the pitter patter of your dog as you're walking uh walking them down the road. Listen to uh the rustling leaves in the trees, listen to water running in the creek, listen to the waves in the ocean, and as you begin to tune your ears to nature, really what you're doing is you're tapping in to the voice of our Creator God. Then I began to learn how to sit in silence. Silence speaks volumes. How does that happen? Well, when you learn to just sit, and this is where meditation practices uh really can transform your life. If you first learn to just uh one of my favorite places to doing this now is in the car. Uh especially before I go out uh to DoorDash, I'll sit in my car for six to ten minutes and just drink in the silence, and then listen to my own breath, and then my own heartbeat. And then often when I even let the heartbeat go, that's often when my higher self, my God consciousness, my creator God, that's often the time where I begin to hear things that I need to hear, that are there for me as guidance. And then you begin to listen to your heart, and that's where intuition begins to grow. Another way to learn how to increase your intuition and your confidence at listening to your own voice, your inner voice, because we all have it. Have what? We have a direct connection to our Creator God, and to me, that is um the pathway. Intuition is our pathway to the voice of God. And it's it's never broken, it's always there, but we have to learn how to pull away all the other voices, and that's why beginning to listen to nature while you're out on a walk, or um, one of my favorite things to do still is to take a walk and then to sit somewhere in nature, be it a park bench or under a tree. Um, that's one of my favorites, or just leaning up against a tree and just hanging out there for 10 or 20 minutes. Learning how to quiet the quelling of all that's in the I mean, think about how noisy our world is, especially here in the Western world. Even in the country, you you can't get away from the noise. There's planes in the sky, there are helicopters, there's traffic on the road. Yes, even in a country road, you're gonna hear a car from a mile off, you're gonna hear animals in the woods, you're gonna hear farmers' tractors. So you have to seek out those quiet moments. Sometimes you might even have to do a practice where you're putting your plugs in. Uh, maybe if you have a real hard time, maybe it's a deprivation tank. And those that are afraid of the silence would never do that. A deprivation tank is where you're floating and you have your plugs in, and your eyes are either closed or covered, and you're slid into like a tube, and you're floating in salt water, so you know you're you're in perfect, it's like you're suspended in space in complete darkness and silence, and that freaks a lot of people out because a lot of people are so used to that noise, and that is by design, because doing this brings you back to your higher self, which is why the matrix will do anything and everything to keep you distracted from doing that. So, step one is learning to fall in love with silence, with learning to be, which is a very um beginner step of the awakening. You know, um the hardest part after taking the the pill, that that big old proverbial red pill, when you realize that, oh my gosh, this is not the life I chose. No, of course it's not. It's somebody else's design and you're just a player in it. And so now you have to rise up and remember that you're not an actor in somebody else's play. You are the writer. And now you're going to rewrite your role. And maybe that's how you have to do it. Your creative thinker comes out, and maybe you need to write a whole play and see yourself as exiting the matrix. You know, maybe you write in a scene where, you know, you're thinking about jumping off the horse. And then as the ride begins to slow down and the horse stops going up and down, you know, in that play, you're thinking about, I'm gonna get my leg off, I'm gonna stand next to, I'm gonna jump off. And then, you know, maybe write a play of discovering your higher self and introducing yourself. Maybe that's how you have to shut down all the other voices. Whatever you have to do to become comfortable just sitting in silence is a huge step in your awakening process in your evolution. The next thing is starting to discover what happens in your physiological being here on the planet. You're in this earth suit, you're in this temple, this temporary house of your love and light and your pure energy, which is our body, right? Next, you need to listen to your body. Your body has a specific language, and you need to start discovering what that language is because it is your true north. So I've talked about this agnostium, about feeling and and really becoming uber aware of your body. Again, I give you this simple lesson of um sitting. Maybe you're coming out of a meditation. Sit for a few minutes and think about three or four things. Um, this is a Tony Robbins exercise that he does, and it's to bring yourself back into that energy of love and light. And, you know, so he he coaches you through, picking a memory, um, you know, somebody that you love. And we've talked about this agnostium too, having your love and light belt on, your belt of posity. So you pick some of those pictures and you imagine them. And now, you know, you have you're you're floating, you're you're you're feeling that love, you're smiling, your body feels open, your heart is open, you're ready to face anything because love can just carry you through. And then you step outside into the crowd, and suddenly you feel everybody's anger, and and whoosh, down goes your vibrations, and your body tenses. Another good way to um discover this is um when something scares you. Notice how um if you're startled, your heart starts to beat and your body closes and you're tense. Notice these things because that will help usher in your intuition or your inner voice. So if something feels off and your body is screaming at you, it's probably telling you the truth. So it's very important, as another lesson on gaining confidence about listening to your inner voice or intuition, is to not talk yourself out of listening to your instincts. Once you know your body language, you know, even to the point of the food you eat, you'll become very adept at understanding that I, for example, I know that I know that tomatoes cause inflammation in my joints, that these um these foods, tomatoes and eggplant and all of the uh the the shade vegetables, they cause me to be more um achy in my joints. Um it causes muscle cramping. And yet, um what did I do? Two days in a row, we ate pork. And paw pork, you know, whether or not you like the richness and and the fat that that runs through pork, we cannot negate the fact that unless you're eating organic pork, which, you know, they're fed good food, I don't know of a pig near me, and I live in an agricultural type of area. Pigs are still pigs, and they eat from the dirt and they eat garbage, and they are like the bottom feeders, they are like the catfish of the ocean. So, irregardless of how quote unquote good that pork chop or bacon tastes, there are all sorts of toxicities in that meat. And uh, you know, bacon often has MSG in it and preservatives that are very bad for our body. Now I know that, and the reason I know that for sure is the way my body feels for 24 to 48 hours after I eat it. So now eating pork or tomatoes becomes a choice. I really want that taste. I'm really craving that taste. Do I want the taste? Am I willing to go through two days of uncomfortability for that taste? Becomes the question. So I went like two weeks without pork. So two days in a row, we had meals that had pork incorporated in it. And now I'm paying the price. So it's it's learning to listen because your body will speak the truth to you, right? So that's the second thing. Listen, learn how to be, learn how to sit in the silence, learn how to listen to your own heart. And then if something feels off, don't talk yourself out of that. Because there is a voice that knows the answer even before you ask the question. And that goes into my third way of learning, of practice on how to hear your inner voice. Let me give you an example. You are getting your morning routine knocked out, and there is something on your kitchen counter, and something tells you, um, you better put that away before it gets knocked over. And you heard it very clearly, and you're thinking to yourself, I need to put that away before it gets knocked over. But then you get distracted because that's what living in the matrix is: one distraction after another. So you're distracted from what your inner voice was telling you. Put that jar away before it gets knocked over, and you choose to not follow through. And then you go in the bedroom to get your shoes on and you hear this loud crash, and walk into the kitchen and recognize that something fell over, and now the jar is on the floor, or your cat got up on the counter and knocked the jar off, and suddenly, boom, there it is. Wow, I should have listened. The Holy Spirit was telling me to put that jar up, and I didn't. Here's another one. You go out and go to get in your car, and you can see that your front tire, Theresa Marie, is low. I need to put air in that tire, but you ignore it. And instead, five hours later, you're on the side of the road with a flat because your intuition was telling you you have a slow leak and you need to put air in your tire, and then you need to go get that tire fixed. These are two things, two examples that I gave you that actually happened to me. And the tire one was just two days ago, and I was without my car Monday because I had to get a new tire put on. So the voice inside knows the answer before you even have a question. And that is exactly what the word says: that he knows our needs before we ask. And he is giving us opportunity to live and practice and learn how to trust that integrity that is within us because we are sparks of him. And he does speak to us through, now think about it. We have these meridians in our body, the spine, the spine that spreads out into rivers and creeks of information pathways, right? The bloodstream and all of all of those intuits are the way God created us. And if you think that he divorced from our body the ability to hear him, you're wrong because it's built into us. So then you have to look at what God Himself says in Proverbs, to trust in the Lord and lean not on our own understanding. Because, see, our understanding is always going to be ego-based. It's going to be based on our past experiences, it's going to be based on all the information that was brought in through our eye gates and our ear gates and through our uh uh feeling of touch and smell and all of that. And that's how they're gonna ascertain the answer. But yet, deep inside of us, deep down underneath all of those veils of unconsciousness is a conscious being of love and light, a spark of God that has the answers. And that is our job to get back inside to that inner voice, to that intuition, where God truly speaks to us, and we get the real thing, baby. So it often starts to happen through hindsight lessons. The glass jar falls, and we we stop and think, Oh, I should have listened to that voice. Now I I call it like it is. You know, the Holy Spirit told me to do XYZ and I chose to ignore it, and here I am, right? So the more we begin to be aware of this, the more lessons He'll give us so that we can begin to, you know, oh, I am supposed to turn this direction. Okay, I'm gonna turn this direction. Without saying, yeah, but the the GPS is telling me to go this way. Well, we have the perfect GPS right inside of us. So the next big step of this, besides um learning to listen and learning to sit in the silence, uh learning how to understand when something feels off, the next big lesson is to actually give yourself permission to immediately walk away or say no when everything in you is telling you to do the opposite, right? When your body tenses, when you feel that yuck, when there's any hesitation at all. I always go back to when in doubt, don't. So at the slightest inkling of something being off, you need to give yourself that permission in advance. What if this wave of intuition comes across your body, mind, and soul, and you're standing before your boss, for example, or you're a leader yourself, and a question has come in, and everything in you is saying, say this, but your intuition is saying, nope, here's the truth. Well, you had dang well be better be prepared for giving your permission, your yourself the permission to immediately follow. And I will say that when you do that, the the first couple of times it's very scary, you know. Um, and you know, I remember the first time that I actually said what was in my heart um to somebody that, you know, I always used to, well, I'll tell you, it, you know, it was my husband. And um, you know, I used to walk on eggshells, um, you know, back in the day when he had all of those narcy, as we call them, um, narcissistic tendency, my way of the highway, and no, we're gonna do this. And and when he was in that chapter of his life, I didn't want to rock the boat. I walked on eggshells. And so I would never say anything that would quote unquote tick him off because it took too much energy from me until I woke up and recognized, you know what, um, I am not playing this game anymore. I'm not gonna get gaslighted anymore. And so I began, and I remember the first time that I spoke the truth. And I literally said, Um, no, you're gaslighting me right now, and I'm not buying it. And it was literally a pin could drop. And he looked at me and he was like, What? What are you talking about? And then I had an audience and I shared for the first time what gaslighting was. And maybe this is your issue, and you're trying to put it on me, and I'm not receiving it. I'm sorry, dude. That's that's your shit, is is kind of my conversation. For me, as I arrive to this location, and you're believing that that is to be true, and you pull into the parking lot, and there's no parking. You're you're you're beginning to drive and you don't see anything. Now, here is a pivotal moment. Are you going to believe that inner voice is saying, see, you can't just ask God for anything. He's not gonna listen. You know, look, there's no are you gonna listen to those voices, or are you gonna listen to the truth that you can ask, and if you believe, anything will be given to you. Oh, I'm gonna open a hole, you know. Oh, you're a preaching of prosperity God. No, I am talking about spiritual experiences that I have had over and over and over again. And parking, that is a perfect place to begin this practice. Because if you hold on to that belief, oh what? You're coming up to the front of the building, and there it is, the front spot somebody's pulling out. This is how we begin to build up our confidence in our own ability to listen to that inner voice because you know what? Anthon St. Martin said, listen to your inner voice. It is the calling of your spiritual GPS, and it is the system seeking to keep you on track towards your true destiny, which is very much the opposite of what? The greatest loss is the loss of one's calling because we were listening to the wrong voices, so that is extremely important. That is the biggest reason to learn how to build your self-confidence in hearing and trusting that inner voice. So, humanity, as uh Stephen Fortik says, what are we forfeiting in our life right now? Because of the force of fear pushing against our faith, because we're listening to the wrong voice. You see, our intuition goes before us, showing us the way. Emotions follow behind that to let you know when you go astray. Just like going back to that example of, oh, I need to move that jar because if I don't, it might fall and break. And you don't listen to it, and then all of a sudden you hear the crash, and immediately your body goes, Oh. These are ways that God has given us to trust in Him and not our own understanding. But we have to practice listening to our own inner voice, our intuition. And another way to do that is to ask questions. Am I hearing you say not to go door dash today? To be curious, to see what you see and hear what you hear. For example, that very question, should I dash today? Now, everything in me, my ego, my ego has been crying out since eight o'clock this morning. It's almost 11 o'clock here in Middle Tennessee, and my ego has been crying out since eight o'clock. You had dang well better get out and dash because you have bills to pay. When my inner voice was saying no, you need to drop this podcast. You need to trust that I'm gonna give you your financial gold today. But first, you're gonna seek me and what I'm asking you to do. And this is part of my mission right here, right now, speaking in this mic to faces and faces, seas of humanityville. I don't know who this will reach, but there's somebody out there that needs the inner confidence to trust their inner voice. And I have come to the place where I'm not gonna rush because my ego is freaking out. We have intuitive powers that were given to our souls at birth, and so what do we need to walk away from today, humanity? How are we going to today use some of these simple practices, listening to nature, sitting in silence, learning to be. If something feels off in your body, it probably is, not worrying about what others think or how things look, listening to your inner voice, which is your spiritual GPS system, and eventually trusting only in the Lord without leaning on your own understanding, because you are now fully connected, and you know that you know that you know that He is speaking to you in spite of what anybody else thinks. So, humanity on this walkaway Wednesday, maybe you need to walk away from your fear of man, or maybe you need to walk away from the constant feeding of electronics into your being, be it the phone scrolling or Facebook or TikTok or the TV constantly on. Maybe you need to walk away from your fear of being by yourself in total silence. All of these things are going to help build your self-confidence that you do not only recognize and have found your inner voice, but now you are powerful and courageous enough to listen to it. Happy evolving humanity on this beautiful Wednesday. I hope it is a wonder filled day of exploration into the you you were always meant to be. I love you. Peace.