Trusting Your Inner Wisdom: Human Design, Intuition, and Creative Recovery with Sarah Girling

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Deinstitutionalizing Daily Life: Why Creative Healing Matters

So many of us—especially those late-diagnosed neurodivergent or long estranged from our creative roots—have been taught to mistrust our intuitions. Institutional frameworks, from rigid school systems to the commodified world of clinical practice, too often encourage a kind of gaslighting: dimming intuitive wisdom in favor of logic, hierarchy, and endless productivity.

Sarah and I each navigated this terrain—her as a clinical social worker, myself as an occupational therapist—before stepping outside to honor our fuller, wilder selves. Our stories echo a common longing:To find spaces where trauma-informed care, creative expression, and community belong together.

This is not about bypassing the hard work of healing. Rather, it’s about remembering that arts-based, intuitive practices—tarot, human design, folk craft—were once medicine in themselves. Long before they were sidelined by the “hard sciences,” these folkways helped people process grief, mark seasons, and reconnect with their existential sovereignty.

The Power of Intuitive Practice: Human Design as a Mirror

One soft portal we explored was human design—a nuanced synthesis of ancient wisdom and modern insight. Both Sarah and I found this system not as a rigid prescription, but as a nuanced mirror. As Sarah explained, human design isn’t here to create new gurus, but to invite you into a deeper, self-led trust. Even the places where you feel open and vulnerable in your chart can become sources of wisdom, rather than shame.

Our conversation highlighted how learning your unique energetic blueprint can be healing for those who’ve felt pathologized or out-of-step with mainstream norms. There is a gentle liberation in discovering that your sensitivities, intuitive nudges, and energetic cycles are not “problems”—they’re part of a sacred ecology.

Reframing the People Pleaser: From Survival to Empowered Collaboration

A vital part of the journey is making visible the parts of us shaped by survival. Many of us, especially those carrying trauma or social difference, have learned to be people pleasers—to compromise our voice to stay safe, loved, or visible in systems that weren’t built for us.Sarah’s wisdom here was an invitation: What if those very places where you’ve dimmed yourself are seeds of possibility? What if reclamation means celebrating your “too muchness,” your intuitive weirdness, your wild sensitivity?

As we learn to commune with our intuition and creativity, we can shift from lonely solo walks to empowered collaboration—choosing community, mutual support, and creative reciprocity over isolation.

Soft Openings: Gentle Invitations Into Practice

If you’re curious to start your journey, gentle structure awaits.Sarah’s human design offerings, intuitive development course, and trauma-informed reports offer an accessible springboard ($7 for her intro course, built for nervous system safety and genuine self-trust). On my end, the Creative Liberation Starter Kit (always free) offers art-based compassion practices to dip your toes into folk wisdom without pressure or perfection.

There’s no rush here. Healing and creativity unfold at the pace of your nervous system. Whether you try tarot, morning pages from The Artist’s Way, or sit quietly with your chart, know that you’re invited—never forced—into this circle.

Soft invitations from Sarah Girling: 🕯️ The Trust Your Intuition Accelerator Course – gentle, generous, and only $7 for founding members → .css-j9qmi7{display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-flex-direction:row;-ms-flex-direction:row;flex-direction:row;font-weight:700;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:2.8rem;width:100%;-webkit-box-pack:start;-ms-flex-pack:start;-webkit-justify-content:start;justify-content:start;padding-left:5rem;}@media only screen and (max-width: 599px){.css-j9qmi7{padding-left:0;-webkit-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webkit-justify-content:center;justify-content:center;}}.css-j9qmi7 svg{fill:#27292D;}.css-j9qmi7 .eagfbvw0{-webkit-align-items:center;-webkit-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;color:#27292D;}