Can’t Make a Decision? Your Voice Might Be Missing

If you’re swirling in indecision—wondering what to do next in your business or life—it might not be strategy you need… it might be your voice. When we’re disconnected from our inner knowing, no amount of thinking, journaling, or researching will bring the clarity we crave.

This episode is a gentle but powerful invitation to pause the noise, come back to yourself, and listen. I’m sharing what I’ve seen in myself and in my clients: that the real root of indecision is often a loss of connection to our own voice. You’ll walk away understanding why you’re not broken or stuck—you’re just being called inward.

The Missing Ingredient Isn’t Strategy—It’s Self-Connection

In a world obsessed with productivity and problem-solving, we’re taught to think our way through everything. But decision-making isn’t just logical—it’s intuitive. And intuition lives in the body, in the voice, in the quiet.

When your inner voice has been muted by burnout, people-pleasing, or constantly performing for others, it’s not that you can’t make a decision—it’s that you can’t hear what you truly want.

The real clarity comes not from another pro/con list, but from the sacred pause it takes to listen inward.

Why You’re Not “Too Much” or “Too Lost”—You’re Just Out of Alignment

So many of my clients come to me feeling like something is off, but they can’t name it. They describe being frozen, foggy, unsure what to say or do next. The common thread? They’re disconnected from their voice.

Whether you’ve been ignoring your intuition for so long you barely recognize it, or you’ve lost your voice under the pressure to sound polished and professional, the good news is this:

Your voice is never truly gone. It’s just waiting for you to come back.

In this episode, I share how burnout, busyness, and external noise can cloud our inner knowing—and how reconnecting to your voice creates a ripple effect across your decisions, your boundaries, and your sense of self.

A Practice for Reconnection: Ask Before You Act

One of my favorite tools I share in this episode is simple, but powerful. Before you make a decision, speak up, or take action, ask yourself:

“Is this coming from my truth… or from fear?”

This question invites pause. It invites you to drop from the mind into the body. To notice whether your voice feels rooted and expansive—or tight and performative.

You don’t need a perfect answer. But even asking this can help you start building a new relationship with your voice—one rooted in trust, presence, and power.

Your Voice Already Knows

If you’re swirling in indecision, frozen on what to do next in your business or life, this episode is your invitation to slow down and come home to yourself.

Your voice may feel faint right now, but she hasn’t abandoned you. She’s just waiting for you to remember how to listen.

🌿 Book your Awakening Session: https://www.carolinehull.com/awaken

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The Transcript for The Voicekeeper Podcast:

011: Can’t Make a Decision? Your Voice Might Be Missing

[00:00:00] Are you trying to make big decisions about your business, your content, your next chapter, but everything feels foggy. You're not unmotivated, and you're not flaky, and you're definitely not broken. You're just not anchored in your voice right now. And without that, without a clear rooted connection to your inner truth, aligned decisions become almost impossible.

And that's what we're gonna talk about today.

 [00:01:00] Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Voice Keeper Podcast. I'm Caroline Hull. This is your space to return to your voice, remember what's true, and lead from the inside out without pressure, performance, or burnout. Today's episode, I wanna explore something I've been hearing over and over again from my clients lately, and maybe sometimes from myself.

I just don't know what to do. Not because they lack op options, but because they've lost connection to the part of themselves that knows. I'm gonna call this your voice, and I'm also gonna call it your intuition. But before we go even deeper, let's take a breath. If it feels safe to do so, close your eyes or soften your gaze.

Place one hand on your heart. Let your body find stillness. Take a slow breath in and exhale gently [00:02:00] do that again. And I just want you to notice where your voice lives in your body. Now, is it open? Is it hiding? Is it tense? Is it quiet? Just noticing is enough.

So before we dive into today, I have to tell you all what is happening in my world right at this moment. So if you are watching me on YouTube, I hope you are not noticing how puffy my face is. I am having some kind of weird reaction to a face soap. I. And it was really funny because I sat down to record this podcast episode and I was like, oh, shoot, I have to be on video.

And then I remembered that the message is way more important than how puffy my face is, and I don't really care because I wanted to share this [00:03:00] with you. And I guess I just wanted to share that because I know that a lot of us. Feel like things need to be perfect in order for us to take steps forward.

And sometimes messy action is what is required to make things happen. And so this is me and my gray t-shirt, my puffy face, taking a messy action. So I invite you to take some messy action with me this week. Find something in your life that needs just a little push, a little shove. Do it imperfectly.

Let's go like we only live once, right? People. Okay. So let's talk about this concept today. Your voice isn't just your message or your content. I like to think of your voice as part of your inner knowing. It's the frequency of your truth, right? It's what guides your decisions, your creativity, your visibility, and when you lose connection to it, everything else starts to feel forced.

And I think this is [00:04:00] something really important that I wanna talk about because in the last couple of episodes I did, I talked a lot about like finding your voice and reconnecting to your voice, and how do you know when you need to find your voice? You know, all of those things. But we can find our voice, like we can start to form that connection and still not be paying attention to that inner knowing that intuition.

I worked recently with a client and she felt really unsure of where her business was going. She had a lot of ideas and she, and honestly, she knew where she wanted to go, but she had no clarity and she kept telling me, I keep asking what I should do, but nothing feels right. And again, like in our session, we didn't start with strategy.

We started with her voice, her body, her truth. You know, what are you feeling? What is coming up for you? I am right now taking a course on the [00:05:00] Laws of attraction. And they were talking about how, you know, you, you feel things in your body when you say things like, for instance I'm gonna go to the grocery store today.

Like, how does that feel in your body? Like, does that feel good? Does that feel stressful? You know. That is part of your intuition and somewhere along the way, in this modern age, in this modern world, we stopped listening to that part of reclamation of my voice over the last few years. Has been really learning to listen to my intuition again and reconnecting with her.

'cause she's smart, she knows what she's doing, she knows what she's talking about. And what's funny is now that I have reconnected to my intuition, I can see all these things that have happened in my life where I completely ignored her. , One of my favorite examples is when I was in college, I went to a university.

I was a ballet pedagogy major. [00:06:00] I was at one of the top four ballet programs at the time. I think they're, they still have a really good ballet program, but it was not a good fit for me. , From the start, like it didn't feel right, it didn't feel good. I, I had, the professors were already on me about my weight pretty much the minute I walked in the door.

The floors were not sprung. So, you know, and I was a jumper the summer before that. I had gone to a summer program and this. Really famous ballet person. I'm not gonna use names here 'cause like, none of this is important, but this really famous ballet. She was a ballerina and then later a ballet teacher, and she was very famous.

She had worked with Balanchine. If you know anything about ballet, that's huge. She had asked me to come to the university where she was teaching and it, my immediate reaction was to say, no. Because I didn't wanna move too far away from my home. I wanted to be able to drive home. Anyways, [00:07:00] the whole four years I was at this university, all I could think about was that invitation she had given me and how much I didn't want to be there, how much I was ready for it to be over, how much I was ready to graduate and like move on to the next thing.

And I think about that a lot. Not that I care so much, um, I did not. Become a professional ballet dancer because they ended up getting very injured my junior year and they treated me horribly after my injury. There's a lot that went down. I really need to like put this on my substack one day, this whole story because it's kind of crazy.

But it was interesting because in retrospect when I started looking back on that time, there was this voice telling me like, this is not where you're supposed to be. This is not where you're supposed to be. And I kept pushing it down. Well, transferring is too hard, doing this is too hard. And sometimes I like to think about like, what if I had stepped into my power and been like.[00:08:00] 

This is not where I belong. I don't like the way I'm being treated. I have the ability to transfer to another university. It may be hard. It may be difficult. I may have to go do some auditions. I may need to take a gap year, but like the experience would've been so different and I might not carry all the trauma and stuff that I carry from my time there.

We will never know, and that's okay. We don't need to. What if I've healed from that? I've worked through it. It's all good. I'm finding movement again. I love it. It's everything's good. But I wanna use that as an example, because to me, when I first started healing that time period, I kept saying, man, I wasted four years.

And it still feels like that sometimes, to be honest. I'll be like, man, I wasted four years. But when I can pinpoint the reason why it feels like a waste, it's because I did not listen to my intuition. And that's a pretty heavy example, but I want to share that because I wanna give you a [00:09:00] moment in time to kind of like say, okay, yes, I get the concept that she's telling us.

So let me talk about how, why this all like is important for you to work on and how this makes sense in the context of what I do. This is not just mindset work. I wanna be a very specific, mindset is a huge piece of this, but like it's all connected. You can't just work on one thing. Like you can't just sit down with a whole bunch of affirmations and think they're gonna change your life.

You have to be connected to your inner voice. You have to change how your brain functions around certain ideas. It's soul work. It really is. This is work that is deep is about yourself and a lot of times it's about pulling things out that maybe you are not seeing, and it's really hard to do alone.

And spiritual life coaching creates space for you to return to your voice. [00:10:00] Without needing to perform or explain. And I wanna include this in this episode because I think it's really important to understand like, yes, 110000%, you can listen to this podcast every week and you can take these concepts that I'm talking about, and you can go, okay, I'm gonna work on them.

But sometimes we get to a point where we need help. Everybody hits these points. I, I have hit these points. I've been in therapy, I've done coaching all of the things. And it has made such a huge impact on my life because it helped me get from point A to point BA lot faster than if I had tried to do it by myself.

You know, spiritual coaching for me really is a pause. It's a time to pause, to remember, and a chance to feel yourself align and it feel yourself again, right? Feel who you are before you take those next steps forward. So all that to say, if you're in that foggy place right now, there's a reflection I want you to sit with.

[00:11:00] What does my voice want me to know before I take my next step? Don't rush it. Whatever comes forward, let it come forward. Even when word is is enough, sometimes clarity is not a full sentence. It's a whisper. And I think that one of the skills that we have to learn is to listen to those whispers. And to start to discern if that is the brain or the heart speaking to us.

, One of the concepts that was really interesting to me when I was going through my coaching certification and I also read a lot of psychology books and things like that, there is this definite difference between, you know, our brain thinking and our, what I like to say is our heart thinking. 'cause I think that's an easy visualization.

You know, we, our intuition may tell us something and then our brain may go, no, no, no, I don't wanna do that. That doesn't feel safe. Right? And that's, you know, just like my story where my intuition was saying, you don't belong here, you [00:12:00] should go somewhere else. And my brain was like, no, no, no. That's gonna be too hard.

That's gonna be too difficult, it's gonna take too much time, money, effort, et cetera. So we're not gonna do that. When you're able to start listening to each of those and going, okay, what, what are you trying to get outta this brain and what are you trying to get outta this heart? It's very similar to people with anxiety, how we have to learn to make friends with our anxiety and learn to be like, oh yeah, that's my brain trying to keep me safe right now.

It's a very similar concept, so if you're. Journaling this prompt. What does that my voice want me to know before I take my next step? And you're hearing whispers and counter whispers. Write 'em all down and then go through them and see like what, which, which of these came from my brain and which came from my heart?

Start there. I think that's a really great place to start, and if you're trying to figure out where to go next, but feel untethered, unsure, or. like you've drifted from your truth, I want to invite you into something deeper. [00:13:00] This is exactly the work that I do inside my voice keeper coaching sessions.

These are not strategy sessions, although sometimes we talk a little strategy. These are sacred spaces for women who want to reconnect with themselves before they make their next move. We root into your voice. We listen, we uncover the clarity that's been waiting underneath all the noise. And from there you will know what to do because you will be connected.

To this end or knowing. So you can head to carolinehull.com/awaken, to book an awakening session. This is my kind of intro session and I would be honored to talk and walk with you. So just to close out, you don't need another plan. You don't need to perform your way into clarity. You need your voice, and it's already here waiting to be heard.

Let's return to it together. I'll see you next time. 

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