Making a major life changing decision can be difficult, especially when it goes against the norms of society or opposes the standards of how you were raised. When decisions are scary, they can make us doubt our own internal nudges that are pushing us into a state of complete discomfort and uncertainty.

Know that everything you are feeling in those moments are perfectly normal. Know that big decisions will cost you everything. Know that you are going to disappoint people. Know that many people who said they loved you will walk out the door.

It will be painful. But, and this is a massive but, it will be worth it. Because everything that you are holding on to that is suffocating you and making you feel trapped can be lifted with the mere decision that says, "No more of this."

And on the other side of that hard decision is a life that you could have never even imagined existed. The rewards you receive on the other side of that decision pale in comparison to what you will lose.