July 1, 2025 • 15 mins
Navigating the subtle line between anxiety and intuition can be challenging, especially for those of us working to overcome old patterns of worry. During a recent trip to Los Angeles, a seemingly normal airport departure turned into a powerful lesson about trusting myself and recognizing when my body is signaling genuine intuition versus habitual anxiety.
Take Aways
• Recognize when anxiety may actually be intuition trying to get our attention
• How old conditioning can make us doubt ourselves even when we're right
• Learn the differences between anxiety and intuition in our bodies
• Explore how different upbringings affect our responses to stress
• Learn how to listen through our fears
• Find the courage to trust yourself when it might make you seem "too much"
• Embrace affirmations that strengthen self-trust and inner wisdom
Please subscribe to the podcast, share it with a friend, leave a review, or share it with a family member who's navigating the balance between self-trust and old conditioning. Your growth matters, your intuition is valid, and your journey is unfolding in divine time.
Thank you for joining me!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Just Count Me In a podcast about coming
home to yourself and findingyour expression, figuring out
who exactly you came here to be,also known as living your best
life.
I'm Sari Stone and I'll be yourhost.
Hey, welcome back.
I hope you had a great week andyou're enjoying this new moon
(00:22):
energy and you're enjoying thisnew moon energy.
This actually was an episodethat I recorded after visiting
my daughter in California backin November, but I really wanted
to share it with you now.
It's about trusting your gutwhen your intuition might sound
a little bit like anxiety.
But well, stay tuned and listen.
(00:42):
This is for anyone on a journey, especially growth-minded
parents, teens, curious peoplewho are learning to trust
themselves again and arerelatively you could be
relatively new at it, or youcould be in this work for a
while, as I've been.
Still, these things come upToday.
We're diving into a reallydelicate, confusing space,
(01:06):
because sometimes it is hard toknow whether we need to listen
to our intuition or whether weare just falling back into old
habits of worry and control.
So if you've ever askedyourself is this my inner
knowing, am I right on, or am Ijust being anxious again, this
(01:26):
episode is totally for you.
We just returned from abeautiful trip to Los Angeles to
visit my daughter and myson-in-law and my little great,
my little grandbabies, and itwas magical just being with them
.
She just moved and I was therehelping with the boys.
Let's be honest, I was justreally playing while she
unpacked.
(01:46):
It was just one of those tripswhere everything flowed and I
love being in her presence somuch.
There was laughter connection.
And then we got to the airportto head home.
We had our boarding passes,everything was fine.
We were definitely more thanenough time, my son-in-law was
awesome at being on time and Iwas calm, a little sad about
(02:11):
leaving, but calm.
But then all of a sudden Istarted getting hit with these
waves of I'm just going to callit like it was.
It was anxiety and it caught meoff guard, because I am not
someone who fears flying.
I do have a tendency sometimesto shift into like a hyper
(02:33):
vigilant mode, like kind of likedouble checking, everything
needing things to go just right,scanning for anything that
could go wrong.
It's kind of the shadow sideand I've worked hard to quiet it
over the years, but itdefinitely pops up from time to
time.
So when I noticed the feeling.
I tried to just breathe into itand ignore it, to be honest
(02:56):
with you and push it away, butthat voice kept coming back.
Just that you better checkthings again.
Then I noticed we were in theterminal and I noticed that our
flight wasn't showing up on thedisplay.
I kind of blew it off and myhusband was like just, you know,
relax, just it's going to showup.
I'm going to go get us coffee.
(03:17):
And, honestly, that voice, theone that was trying to chill me
out, trying to tell me to justnot be the old me, just kept
saying something is wrong andthe uneasy feeling kept getting
worse.
And here we are.
I'm trying to change thispattern of trying to control
(03:40):
things and worry about thingsneedlessly.
And here's where the conflictcame in for me and it might come
in for you, like this sometimesLike do I trust that nudge,
like, if it's a quiet nudge,that something's not right and
go with it, or do I dismiss it,just assuming that I'm relapsing
(04:03):
into my old behaviors?
I am one that tends now, 90% ofthe time, to just go with
trusting my gut, trusting myheart.
But with these old behaviors,these old obstacles that I've
worked so hard to overcome.
I was afraid that I wasrelapsing into an old pattern
(04:25):
and that's walking a tightropefor many of us, especially those
of us doing inner work.
It's easy to kind of gaslightourselves when we've outgrown a
former version of who we were,but sometimes the very things
we're trying to still outgrowstill serve us in certain
moments.
Anxiety is not always the enemy.
(04:46):
Yes, you heard me say thatAnxiety is not always the enemy.
It's been a survival mechanism.
It heightens awareness, it getsus moving, it sharpens our
senses and it can be the voicescreaming when we're not
listening to the whispers thatsomething is wrong.
Sometimes it's not even anxietyat all.
(05:09):
Anxiety is just a name that wegave it and it's actually our
intuition, which wasn't gettingour attention, and it's just.
It disguises ourselves in a newcostume, like if you're not
going to listen to me when Imake your chest tight or I make
your stomach feel like there's aknot, then I'm going to make
your heart pound and I'm goingto keep doing something to get
(05:31):
your attention.
Because it was a knowing thatsomething wasn't right.
So, after sitting with therising uneasiness for too long,
I finally listened to the partof me that said you need to go
ask and check.
So I took a deep breath, kindof swallowed my pride I know my
husband was probablydisappointed that I reverted
(05:52):
back to my old worry war itself.
In this case, thank goodness Iasked because, guess what?
We were in the wrong terminal.
The airline had made a mistake.
We got checked in, we had it onour boarding passes.
We were completely in the wrongterminal.
Our flight was boardingsomewhere else and we had 20
(06:13):
minutes to get there before thedoors closed.
And if you've ever been to LAX,it's no joke.
It's very crowded, very hustle,very packed.
And we are not 20 anymore.
Okay, so we can't just sprintlike you see in the movies,
people sprinting through theairport gracefully dodging other
(06:34):
people.
And it didn't look like thatwhen we did it at all.
The first thing we did was lookat each other and thought, okay
, are we going to panic, go toblame?
Are we going to start blamingeach other, blaming the airline,
and get mad and demandingjustice?
Are we going to freeze or do wejust kind of run?
I looked at Stan, he looked atme, we said nothing at all and
(06:58):
we just took off.
Now here's something I haven'treally talked about yet.
My husband and I come fromreally different upbringings.
He grew up in a household fullof trauma, where it was safer to
just not believe in good thingsbecause disappointment was
inevitable.
Hope was dangerous.
I grew up in a house wherethere was, of course, enough
(07:23):
dysfunction for sure, but myinternal world was always full
of belief.
My mom used to call me herAlice in Wonderland child.
I could dream up 10 impossiblethings before breakfast.
I lived in the realm ofpossibility and my imagination
was my reality.
For me, even in chaos, I alwayschose belief because I do
(07:48):
believe.
It's like a knowing that I have.
So when we are under pressure,like that sprint across the
terminals, these parts of ustend to come out.
He tends to revert to thepractical we are not going to
make it, I'm not even going totry.
And I tend to revert to themagical we're going to make it.
I see us on the plane.
(08:09):
Thank goodness, I'm reallymarried to a saint and I told
him I'm going to go.
I'll hold the plane for you orgo.
If you can go faster than me,try to hold the plane for me.
They told us it was impossibleand that the gate was going to
be closing and I still could seeus on the plane going home.
So the polarity that we havereally plays out in different
(08:31):
ways in our relationship.
It usually balances itselfbeautifully.
In this moment, I just had tohold the line of belief for both
of us.
We didn't run like Olympians.
It wasn't graceful, it was liketwo grown adults trying to defy
time and terminal logistics.
But somehow in me something newwe were going to get that
(08:54):
flight.
We got there just as the clockturned 9.01.
I watched the digit change onmy watch.
Technically, they should havebeen locking the doors.
They didn't care that they hadsent us to the wrong terminal.
They clearly weren't concerned.
But luckily, luck was on ourside as it usually is for me,
(09:15):
and the pilot had been slightlydelayed.
So, just as they were lettingthe passengers the standby
passengers board, the pilotarrived and we were those people
that ended up on the plane justpanting out of breath the last
few people and we made it.
The miracle is not that wecaught the flight.
(09:35):
The real miracle is what itwoke up inside of me.
I realized, once I settled downand got my nervous system back
to safety, that I had doubtedmyself, despite all this work
I've done, even when myinstincts were right, that I
almost let the fear of being toomuch stop me from acting on
(09:59):
what I knew was a situation thatwe needed to investigate.
So that old part of me, the onewho equated worry with love and
worry with being an adult, wasstill present.
But really, that part of me ishonestly no longer in charge
anymore.
No longer in charge anymore.
(10:22):
This experience reminded me ofa bigger truth, I guess.
Healing doesn't mean neverfeeling fear.
It means just knowing how tolisten to yourself through it.
It means asking okay, is thisanxiety or is this actually
awareness?
Is this my old pattern or isthis my intuition?
(10:44):
Maybe most importantly, itmeans believing in yourself,
believing in the most evolvedversion of you, even when she's
whispering or the old voices arescreaming.
So I'm going to ask you wherein your life do you still
(11:07):
second-guess your inner knowingand how do you physically
experience intuition versusanxiety?
What's the difference?
That's what I had to look atwithin myself, where I just
stopped, breathed and thenreally gave a deep thought to
(11:31):
when is it coming from my headand when is it coming from a
knowing?
When is it coming from aknowing that I have that
something's wrong.
What were you taught about worryor responsibility growing up?
How does that affect you now?
I, honestly, was taught thatresponsible people worry and
(11:53):
that it's part of being a parent, it's part of caring about
somebody.
They would say I'm I was reallyworried about you.
Or I would say I was worriedabout you, as if I, the worry
was taking some kind of action.
Worry doesn't do anything, okay.
Worry is just a total waste oftime.
But it took me years to unravelthat and still, once in a while
(12:15):
, it'll crop up.
My husband's really good atcalling me out on that.
He'll say you know, you'rewarding again like we're
awarding.
When was the last time that youbelieved anyway, even when
others didn't?
And what part of your paststill tries to run the show?
When you're under stress, howcan you lovingly thank yourself
(12:40):
and then take it to a new place,lead it from your current self?
So these are some of theaffirmations that I've been
using since this experience.
I trust my inner voice, evenwhen it speaks in whispers.
(13:01):
My intuition is wise, it'sgrounded and it's connected to
the truth.
I believe in myself.
Especially when I'm underpressure, I am guided by
presence and faith.
(13:22):
I'm no longer ruled by oldpatterns.
So thank you for listening tothis episode of Transform your
Life.
Just Count Me In.
I'm hoping that you found somevalue here and, if it resonated,
please subscribe to the podcast.
(13:42):
That really helps support me.
Share it with a friend, leave areview, share it with a family
member, and if you know anybodywho's navigating that balance
between self-trust and beingaware of old conditioning, let
me know.
Your growth matters, yourintuition is really, really
(14:04):
valid and your story, yourjourney, is unfolding in divine
time, but it doesn't mean thatthings are always going to be
perfect just because things areunfolding exactly as they should
be.
When we are ready for somethingand we ask for something, the
(14:24):
universe is going to keep givingit to us until we are that
energetic alignment, that sameenergetic vibration.
And if there are some things inthe way, if there are some
obstacles that need to becleared, something like this may
happen, and in my case it wasself-doubt and not believing in
(14:45):
myself enough, so there weresome things I needed to work on
there.
So until the next time, trustthe whisper and just count me in
.
Welcome to Just Count Me In a podcast about coming
home to yourself and findingyour expression, figuring out
who exactly you came here to be,also known as living your best
life.
I'm Sari Stone and I'll be yourhost.
Hey, welcome back.
I hope you had a great week andyou're enjoying this new moon
(00:22):
energy and you're enjoying thisnew moon energy.
This actually was an episodethat I recorded after visiting
my daughter in California backin November, but I really wanted
to share it with you now.
It's about trusting your gutwhen your intuition might sound
a little bit like anxiety.
But well, stay tuned and listen.
(00:42):
This is for anyone on a journey, especially growth-minded
parents, teens, curious peoplewho are learning to trust
themselves again and arerelatively you could be
relatively new at it, or youcould be in this work for a
while, as I've been.
Still, these things come upToday.
We're diving into a reallydelicate, confusing space,
(01:06):
because sometimes it is hard toknow whether we need to listen
to our intuition or whether weare just falling back into old
habits of worry and control.
So if you've ever askedyourself is this my inner
knowing, am I right on, or am Ijust being anxious again, this
(01:26):
episode is totally for you.
We just returned from abeautiful trip to Los Angeles to
visit my daughter and myson-in-law and my little great,
my little grandbabies, and itwas magical just being with them
.
She just moved and I was therehelping with the boys.
Let's be honest, I was justreally playing while she
unpacked.
(01:46):
It was just one of those tripswhere everything flowed and I
love being in her presence somuch.
There was laughter connection.
And then we got to the airportto head home.
We had our boarding passes,everything was fine.
We were definitely more thanenough time, my son-in-law was
awesome at being on time and Iwas calm, a little sad about
(02:11):
leaving, but calm.
But then all of a sudden Istarted getting hit with these
waves of I'm just going to callit like it was.
It was anxiety and it caught meoff guard, because I am not
someone who fears flying.
I do have a tendency sometimesto shift into like a hyper
(02:33):
vigilant mode, like kind of likedouble checking, everything
needing things to go just right,scanning for anything that
could go wrong.
It's kind of the shadow sideand I've worked hard to quiet it
over the years, but itdefinitely pops up from time to
time.
So when I noticed the feeling.
I tried to just breathe into itand ignore it, to be honest
(02:56):
with you and push it away, butthat voice kept coming back.
Just that you better checkthings again.
Then I noticed we were in theterminal and I noticed that our
flight wasn't showing up on thedisplay.
I kind of blew it off and myhusband was like just, you know,
relax, just it's going to showup.
I'm going to go get us coffee.
(03:17):
And, honestly, that voice, theone that was trying to chill me
out, trying to tell me to justnot be the old me, just kept
saying something is wrong andthe uneasy feeling kept getting
worse.
And here we are.
I'm trying to change thispattern of trying to control
(03:40):
things and worry about thingsneedlessly.
And here's where the conflictcame in for me and it might come
in for you, like this sometimesLike do I trust that nudge,
like, if it's a quiet nudge,that something's not right and
go with it, or do I dismiss it,just assuming that I'm relapsing
(04:03):
into my old behaviors?
I am one that tends now, 90% ofthe time, to just go with
trusting my gut, trusting myheart.
But with these old behaviors,these old obstacles that I've
worked so hard to overcome.
I was afraid that I wasrelapsing into an old pattern
(04:25):
and that's walking a tightropefor many of us, especially those
of us doing inner work.
It's easy to kind of gaslightourselves when we've outgrown a
former version of who we were,but sometimes the very things
we're trying to still outgrowstill serve us in certain
moments.
Anxiety is not always the enemy.
(04:46):
Yes, you heard me say thatAnxiety is not always the enemy.
It's been a survival mechanism.
It heightens awareness, it getsus moving, it sharpens our
senses and it can be the voicescreaming when we're not
listening to the whispers thatsomething is wrong.
Sometimes it's not even anxietyat all.
(05:09):
Anxiety is just a name that wegave it and it's actually our
intuition, which wasn't gettingour attention, and it's just.
It disguises ourselves in a newcostume, like if you're not
going to listen to me when Imake your chest tight or I make
your stomach feel like there's aknot, then I'm going to make
your heart pound and I'm goingto keep doing something to get
(05:31):
your attention.
Because it was a knowing thatsomething wasn't right.
So, after sitting with therising uneasiness for too long,
I finally listened to the partof me that said you need to go
ask and check.
So I took a deep breath, kindof swallowed my pride I know my
husband was probablydisappointed that I reverted
(05:52):
back to my old worry war itself.
In this case, thank goodness Iasked because, guess what?
We were in the wrong terminal.
The airline had made a mistake.
We got checked in, we had it onour boarding passes.
We were completely in the wrongterminal.
Our flight was boardingsomewhere else and we had 20
(06:13):
minutes to get there before thedoors closed.
And if you've ever been to LAX,it's no joke.
It's very crowded, very hustle,very packed.
And we are not 20 anymore.
Okay, so we can't just sprintlike you see in the movies,
people sprinting through theairport gracefully dodging other
(06:34):
people.
And it didn't look like thatwhen we did it at all.
The first thing we did was lookat each other and thought, okay
, are we going to panic, go toblame?
Are we going to start blamingeach other, blaming the airline,
and get mad and demandingjustice?
Are we going to freeze or do wejust kind of run?
I looked at Stan, he looked atme, we said nothing at all and
(06:58):
we just took off.
Now here's something I haven'treally talked about yet.
My husband and I come fromreally different upbringings.
He grew up in a household fullof trauma, where it was safer to
just not believe in good thingsbecause disappointment was
inevitable.
Hope was dangerous.
I grew up in a house wherethere was, of course, enough
(07:23):
dysfunction for sure, but myinternal world was always full
of belief.
My mom used to call me herAlice in Wonderland child.
I could dream up 10 impossiblethings before breakfast.
I lived in the realm ofpossibility and my imagination
was my reality.
For me, even in chaos, I alwayschose belief because I do
(07:48):
believe.
It's like a knowing that I have.
So when we are under pressure,like that sprint across the
terminals, these parts of ustend to come out.
He tends to revert to thepractical we are not going to
make it, I'm not even going totry.
And I tend to revert to themagical we're going to make it.
I see us on the plane.
(08:09):
Thank goodness, I'm reallymarried to a saint and I told
him I'm going to go.
I'll hold the plane for you orgo.
If you can go faster than me,try to hold the plane for me.
They told us it was impossibleand that the gate was going to
be closing and I still could seeus on the plane going home.
So the polarity that we havereally plays out in different
(08:31):
ways in our relationship.
It usually balances itselfbeautifully.
In this moment, I just had tohold the line of belief for both
of us.
We didn't run like Olympians.
It wasn't graceful, it was liketwo grown adults trying to defy
time and terminal logistics.
But somehow in me something newwe were going to get that
(08:54):
flight.
We got there just as the clockturned 9.01.
I watched the digit change onmy watch.
Technically, they should havebeen locking the doors.
They didn't care that they hadsent us to the wrong terminal.
They clearly weren't concerned.
But luckily, luck was on ourside as it usually is for me,
(09:15):
and the pilot had been slightlydelayed.
So, just as they were lettingthe passengers the standby
passengers board, the pilotarrived and we were those people
that ended up on the plane justpanting out of breath the last
few people and we made it.
The miracle is not that wecaught the flight.
(09:35):
The real miracle is what itwoke up inside of me.
I realized, once I settled downand got my nervous system back
to safety, that I had doubtedmyself, despite all this work
I've done, even when myinstincts were right, that I
almost let the fear of being toomuch stop me from acting on
(09:59):
what I knew was a situation thatwe needed to investigate.
So that old part of me, the onewho equated worry with love and
worry with being an adult, wasstill present.
But really, that part of me ishonestly no longer in charge
anymore.
No longer in charge anymore.
(10:22):
This experience reminded me ofa bigger truth, I guess.
Healing doesn't mean neverfeeling fear.
It means just knowing how tolisten to yourself through it.
It means asking okay, is thisanxiety or is this actually
awareness?
Is this my old pattern or isthis my intuition?
(10:44):
Maybe most importantly, itmeans believing in yourself,
believing in the most evolvedversion of you, even when she's
whispering or the old voices arescreaming.
So I'm going to ask you wherein your life do you still
(11:07):
second-guess your inner knowingand how do you physically
experience intuition versusanxiety?
What's the difference?
That's what I had to look atwithin myself, where I just
stopped, breathed and thenreally gave a deep thought to
(11:31):
when is it coming from my headand when is it coming from a
knowing?
When is it coming from aknowing that I have that
something's wrong.
What were you taught about worryor responsibility growing up?
How does that affect you now?
I, honestly, was taught thatresponsible people worry and
(11:53):
that it's part of being a parent, it's part of caring about
somebody.
They would say I'm I was reallyworried about you.
Or I would say I was worriedabout you, as if I, the worry
was taking some kind of action.
Worry doesn't do anything, okay.
Worry is just a total waste oftime.
But it took me years to unravelthat and still, once in a while
(12:15):
, it'll crop up.
My husband's really good atcalling me out on that.
He'll say you know, you'rewarding again like we're
awarding.
When was the last time that youbelieved anyway, even when
others didn't?
And what part of your paststill tries to run the show?
When you're under stress, howcan you lovingly thank yourself
(12:40):
and then take it to a new place,lead it from your current self?
So these are some of theaffirmations that I've been
using since this experience.
I trust my inner voice, evenwhen it speaks in whispers.
(13:01):
My intuition is wise, it'sgrounded and it's connected to
the truth.
I believe in myself.
Especially when I'm underpressure, I am guided by
presence and faith.
(13:22):
I'm no longer ruled by oldpatterns.
So thank you for listening tothis episode of Transform your
Life.
Just Count Me In.
I'm hoping that you found somevalue here and, if it resonated,
please subscribe to the podcast.
(13:42):
That really helps support me.
Share it with a friend, leave areview, share it with a family
member, and if you know anybodywho's navigating that balance
between self-trust and beingaware of old conditioning, let
me know.
Your growth matters, yourintuition is really, really
(14:04):
valid and your story, yourjourney, is unfolding in divine
time, but it doesn't mean thatthings are always going to be
perfect just because things areunfolding exactly as they should
be.
When we are ready for somethingand we ask for something, the
(14:24):
universe is going to keep givingit to us until we are that
energetic alignment, that sameenergetic vibration.
And if there are some things inthe way, if there are some
obstacles that need to becleared, something like this may
happen, and in my case it wasself-doubt and not believing in
(14:45):
myself enough, so there weresome things I needed to work on
there.
So until the next time, trustthe whisper and just count me in
.
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