
Why the Voices Convince You That You’re Not Enough
- Michelle Hobson
- Dec 7
- 2 min read
There’s a moment in every awakening journey where you start to realize something wild:
The loudest voice in your head…
isn’t actually you.
It sounds like you.
It uses your tone.
It borrows your memories.
It knows exactly which wound to poke.
But it’s not your soul.
It’s not your truth.
It’s not your destiny speaking.
It’s the interference…
It opens and triggers that old survival code — doing exactly what it was designed to do:
Keep you small enough to stay safe.
Not happy.
Not fulfilled.
Not expanded.
Stalled
Just… safe.
And safe, in this context, means predictable. Familiar. Controlled.
But here’s what no one tells you:
Those voices don’t appear because you’re broken.
They appear because you’re evolving.
Every time you inch toward expansion: visibility, love, money, truth, leadership. The old architecture inside your nervous system lights up and screams:
“No, no, no. Don’t go there. We don’t survive there.”
It’s your past selves talking.
Your lineage talking.
Your old contracts talking.
Your protective patterns talking.
They learned that shrinking was safety.
They learned that dimming was love.
They learned that silence was survival.
So when you start to rise, they panic.
Here’s the trick:
The voice that says:
• “You’re not enough.”
• “Who do you think you are?”
• “Don’t get too big.”
• “Don’t get too loud.”
• “Don’t get too visible.”
…isn’t trying to ruin your life.
It’s trying to protect you from a danger that doesn’t even exist anymore.
It’s outdated programming running a future that is no longer aligned with who you are now.
But the part no one teaches you is this:
Your soul doesn’t argue with fear.
Your soul overrides it.
Your soul speaks in a completely different frequency:
• calm knowing
• cellular truth
• that full-body “yes”
• the vision that won’t leave
• the craving for more
• the inner pull you can’t shut off
• the remembrance of your mission
Your soul says things like:
“You were born for this.”
“This is your path.”
“You’re not too much
you’re enough.”
“Go. Now. We’ve waited long enough.”
“This is it!”
Those voices aren’t quiet.
They’re just buried under years of survival.
So why do the “not enough” voices feel louder?
Because the nervous system is wired to detect threat and familiarity -not destiny.
And expansion, visibility, wealth, love, leadership…. They all feel like threat when you’ve spent a lifetime surviving instead of receiving.
Nothing is wrong with you.
Your body is simply integrating a new reality.
And guess what?
Every time you choose truth over fear…
You’re rewriting the code.
You’re collapsing the old voices.
You’re stepping into the frequency of “more than enough.”
You’re activating the version of you who already lives the life you crave.
The interference collapses when you remember:
You’ve never been too much.
You’ve only been too powerful for the version of you that had to stay small to survive.
And now?
That version is no longer in charge.






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