163: How to Reconnect With Your Intuition

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Have you ever known deep down what the right decision was—but still found yourself analyzing it to death?

Whether it’s a relationship, job, or life decision, intuitive people—especially empaths—often get stuck in their heads, trying to logic their way through emotions. In this episode, we’re diving into why that happens, how it disconnects you from your authentic self, and what you can do to break free from the cycle of overthinking and step back into trust.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

💡 Why intuitive people are especially prone to overthinking
💡 The difference between logical reasoning and inner knowing
💡 How ignoring your intuition can lead to decision paralysis and burnout
💡 Practical tools to clear mental clutter and reconnect to your intuition
💡 How to tell what’s your energy and what’s someone else’s
💡 The role of ego in blocking intuitive wisdom
💡 A personal story about trusting logic over intuition—and the consequences

Challenge for the Week:
This week, notice when you’re overthinking a situation. Pause and ask yourself:

-Is this my intuition speaking… or my fear?
-Am I tuning into my own feelings, or someone else’s energy?
-What would it feel like to just trust my inner knowing right now?

Journaling, meditation, and energy clearing can help you get clarity. Try the mantra: “What’s mine is mine. What’s yours is yours.”

Work With Me:
If you're stuck in the loop of overthinking and second-guessing your intuition, you're not alone—and you don’t have to figure it out alone either. I’d love to support you. Let’s hop on a call to see how my coaching tools can help you reconnect with your intuitive wisdom and start making aligned decisions with confidence. Click here to book your FREE consultation call! https://calendly.com/maryannwalkerlife/freeconsult

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Episode Transcript

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Have you ever known deep downwhat the right decision was,
whether it was about arelationship, a job, or a major
life change, but you still foundyourself overanalyzing it to the
point of exhaustion?
Maybe you're even tellingyourself logical reasons why you
should stay, why you should keeppushing forward even when every
fiber of your being is tellingyou otherwise.

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I really know and deeplyunderstand how for intuitive
people, especially empaths, theycan get stuck in their heads.
Overanalyzing their emotionsinstead of just trusting their
own inner wisdom.
So today we're going to beexploring why this happens, how
it disconnects you from yourtrue self and what you can do to
break the cycle.
We are going to be talking aboutthe dangers of overthinking your
emotions instead of feelingthem.

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How ignoring your intuition canlead to decision paralysis and
disconnection.
The value of trusting your gutand following your instincts.
Tools to clear mental clutterand tune back into your
intuitive wisdom, and also therole of energy in emotional
conflict and how to separatewhat's yours from what's not.
So first, let's kind of explorethe idea of overthinking versus

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trusting.
Intuition isn't loud.
It's a soft, quiet knowing.
But when we overanalyze, then wemight drown out our intuition
with thoughts like, well, maybeI'm just being too sensitive, or
maybe if I try harder, then itwill get better.
Or, well, I don't wanna hurtthem, so I'll just ignore this
feeling.
If you've ever found yourselfmentally justifying why you

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should stay in a situation thatfeels wrong, you're likely
trying to logic your way throughyour emotions instead of
trusting your own inner wisdom.
This can leave you filling outof alignment with yourself and
out of alignment with your ownvalue system.
That's something I talk quite abit with my clients about is are
you in alignment with yourcurrent value system?
Are you showing up well?

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Are you prioritizing temporarypeace over having actual quality
relationships?
Having authentic relationships?
What is it that you're currentlyprioritizing right now and is
that in alignment with yourvalue system?
Or do we need a course correctto get you back into alignment?
Your intuition is designed toprotect you and to guide you.
It's kind of like an internalGPS.

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Now, I know that my brain iswired very differently from my
husband, so when it comes toactual GPS and trying to figure
out where we're going to begoing, where it is that we wanna
be, then I've noticed that myhusband has a lot easier time
orienting himself, he knows whatdirection things are going to
be.
For me, I kind of use more likethe landmarks to kind of see
where it is that I'm going.
We all kind of tap into ourinner knowing a little bit

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differently.
Uh, but I want you to reallyfocus on how is it that I gain
information and how is it that Iknow what's coming up for me and
how can I actually tune in tothat internal GPS so I can gain
more wisdom there?
Because that internal GPS isalways nudging you towards
what's right and also kind ofnudging you away from what's not
right right now.

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But if you ignore it, it's likesilencing your own navigation
system.
And then you're wondering whyyou feel lost, right?
If you're driving somewhere andyou randomly turn off the GPS in
the middle, then you might say,well, it's the GPS's fault.
It didn't tell me where to go,but you are the one who decided
to tune it out.
And the same is true for yourinner knowing.
And the more you decide to tuneinto that inner knowing, the
more you can develop thoseskills and the more you can come

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to trust your instincts.
When you trust your gut, whenyou learn to trust your
instincts and have built thatrelationship of trust with
yourself, you're able to makefaster and more confident
decisions.
There's no more agonizing overeveryday choices because you are
able to recognize when somethingfeels right.
It also really helps you to letgo of ego.

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Ego makes things about who isright, whereas intuition makes
things more about what is right.
You remember the brain wants tobe right more than it wants to
be happy, and sometimes that canget in the way of our own
intuition and our own innerknowing.
So if you really wanna practiceletting go of ego, practice
leading into that intuitiveknowing and see what comes up
for you.

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Following your gut also helpsyou to feel more aligned and at
peace, because you're notforcing things to fit that don't
fit.
You're not forcing yourself todo things that are out of
alignment with yourself, and soyou can actually ultimately feel
more alignment and peace as youlearn to follow those instincts.
It also strengthens your selftrust.
Every single time that you honoryour intuition, you're building

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that confidence in yourself andyour ability to navigate life.
So I want you to take a momentright now and just kind of think
about a time when you ignoredyour gut.
Maybe you stayed in arelationship for too long, or
maybe you stayed in a job thatjust felt off.
Maybe you made a decision basedon logic instead of feeling.
I'll share a personal exampleabout when I was using logic to

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override my intuition.
Without getting into too manydetails, I'll tell you that
there was somebody that I metwhere my initial instinct was,
keep your guard up.
In fact, I had a very specificthought that came to me in my
mind that I won't be sharinghere, but it was very strong and
it was very powerful.
And then I thought, well, maybeI just need to give them the

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benefit of the doubt, right?
So I started to look into themand I could see some social
proof that this person was whothey said that they were.
However, something still wasn'tadding up.
So while I did continue topursue a business type
relationship with this person,it was really interesting to see
how things evolved over time.
And just to make a long storyshort, and maybe someday I'll

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get more into details around it,but this person is now in prison
for fraud.
And it's so interesting becauseI can see things in hindsight
that I wasn't able to see inthat moment.
My gut instinct said, run.
Stay away.
Something's not right.
But I tried to convince myselfthat no, this person has the
social proof that I need.

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This is going to be a greatthing for my business and for
theirs.
We have a shared cause.
And it turned out none of thatstory that I was being told was
true.
So I want you to also practiceforgiving yourself also, like if
you recognize that there was atime when you should have
listened to your instincts andyou did not know that you're
human.
And I am a firm believer in,sometimes we have those

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experiences so that we will bemore intentional about tuning
in, about checking in, aboutfollowing those instincts
because they are there to keepus safe.
You're not going to get it righta hundred percent of the time,
but even when you get it wrong,you can use that as information.
You can use that to learn andgrow.
You can use that as personalreflection as to, okay, when was

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the first time I recognized thatsomething felt a little bit off?
And how did I challenge thatfeeling?
Why didn't I follow my gutinstinct?
What was motivating that?
So I want you to just get reallycurious about it.
Take away that judgment and justbe curious about what's coming
up for you.
Why has it been hard for you totrust your gut?
Maybe you were burned, and thisis what else I see pretty often

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is sometimes somebody getsburned once.
There was one time when.
The fallout of not followingtheir instincts was so
significant that they think, Ican't trust myself ever again.
I made a mistake, but I want youto notice the difference between
your intuition and your logic,because generally speaking, that
intuition's going to be correctand we're going to try to logic

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it away and fight it.
Now, I am one who stronglybelieves in looking for the
evidence.
Right.
Sometimes our thoughts are nottrue.
Sometimes our feelings are nottrue, but practice leaning into
that and feeling for yourselfwhen something is true and when
something is not true.
So here are some ways to shiftfrom overthinking back into
intuition.
Number one, meditation and justkind of clearing out the mental

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chatter.
Take some time to quiet yourmind and create that space for
clarity.
Open yourself up to thatcuriosity in that space.
Ask yourself, okay, what is atthe root of my hesitation?
Am I avoiding discomfort or ismy intuition truly telling me
that I should stay, that Ishould hold out a little bit
longer?
Recognize whatever the real fearis for you.

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Oftentimes it is a warning sign,right?
There's some fear there.
There's some hesitation there,like maybe you're not wanting to
hurt somebody's feelings or youdon't want to misjudge someone,
and it's okay to just recognizethat those are some thoughts
that are coming up for you, andadapt accordingly.
I'm not telling anyone listeningthat they should just assume
that, okay, well, everybody'ssafe, and I'm just gonna follow

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my intuition on this.
Take some time to slow yourrole.
Be gradual in yourrelationships.
Build a relationship of trustrather than only relying on your
intuition.
Because what's going to be mostpowerful for you is if you are
following your intuition and youare able to logically see that
things are in alignment.
The problem exists when thosethings are in conflict with each
other, and recognizing when theintuition is in conflict with

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the logic center of the brain.
That's gonna give you a wholelot of information, so pay
attention to that.
All right.
Tip number two is really tuneinto your body.
Your body holds wisdom that yourmind often tries to override.
For example, when I met thatperson and I thought, Ooh, I'm
getting some really weird vibeshere.
I went and looked at theirwebsite.
I went and did some research onthem, and I saw some things that

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I thought, okay, well maybe mygut instincts are off on this
one.
My logic was attempting tooverride it.
Still, even though there wasthat bit of conflict between
intuition and logic, I was ableto protect myself, right?
I knew out of the gate that,okay, I'm not gonna tell this
person where I live and I'm notgonna give them any money.
So if they wanna collaborate onsome business things, I'm happy
to use my podcast platform.

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I'm happy to use my coaching tosupport their cause, but I had
my own personal boundaries inplace.
So kind of you can do that aswell.
Have your own personalboundaries in place while you
are figuring out if this is asafe path for you, if this is a
safe relationship for you, andto better differentiate between
the intuition and the logic.
Another thing you can do isenergy work for clarity.

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As an intuitive or an empath,you might be feeling the other
person's emotions louder thanyour own.
And sometimes that can seem alittle bit like, okay, well
maybe that's my intuition,right?
When I'm listening to this otherperson's energy, when their
energy and what it is that theywant is so loud, it makes it
really hard for me to see whatis mine.
What is theirs?

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Taking that time to really selfdifferentiate and in those
meditative spaces right, canreally help to bring that
clarity as well, becausesometimes it is hard to know.
So ground yourself, shieldyourself and kind of imagine
just setting back any emotionsthat don't belong to you with
the mantra.
Okay,"what's mine is mine.
What's yours is yours." Thatwill help to differentiate self

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so that you can see what'scoming up for you.
Another thing that might behelpful is try muscle testing to
see what is yours and how muchis theirs.
Sometimes I'll even muscle testand go, okay, well this feels
kind of true for me.
How much of this is mine and howmuch of this is theirs?
And sometimes I'm surprised whenI see that through muscle
testing, I may able to see that,okay, this is only 20% me, which

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means I'm kind of actuallyneutral about it.
And it's 80% their energy andtheir desire that I'm picking up
on empathically.
But that helps me to kind ofstep back and go, okay, so it's
not really me that's reallywanting this, and then I can
turn on that logic part of mymind to kind of see what's
coming up, right?
But again, it's, it's selfdifferentiation and recognizing
what's coming up for you.

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Is this me?
Is this them or is this my ownlogic coming in right now?
So the challenge for this weekis if you find yourself
overthinking, if you findyourself in conflict between
your own intuition and your ownlogic, or maybe if you're
struggling to self differentiatebetween what it is that you
want, because what it is thatthe other person wants feels so

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loud, just notice it.
Increase your own personalawareness around that, and if
you would like help learning howto navigate those things, come
and work with me.
I would love to work with you.
It really is a lifelong journeyand not one podcast episode is
going to fix it all for you, ButI would love to jump on a call
with you to see how the toolsthat I have can benefit you in

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your own personal life.
So if you notice that you'reabsorbing someone else's
emotions, if you notice thatyou're may be feeling out of
balance between the logic andthe heart center, take a deep
breath and send the energy awaythat's not yours, and call back
in what is yours and just see ifthat clarity follows.
So if you're ready to deepentrust in your intuition and

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break free of the cycle ofoverthinking, then let's work
together.
My coaching helps highlysensitive people and empaths
like you develop the tools thatthey need to live authentically,
to stand in their own power, todifferentiate self when they
feel like everybody else's wantsand needs are so much louder.
So there are some limited spotsavailable right now, but come
and find me.
You can email me [e-mail].

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You can find me on social media.
Come and work with me.
I would love to work with you.
I'm currently offering freeconsultation calls.
You can find the link in theshow notes to just book a free
consultation call where we cankind of chat about it and see
how coaching might benefit youand kind of see what's coming up
for you personally.
Thank you so much for being heretoday.
I would love to know whatquestions you have.

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What parts of this do youstruggle most with?
Do you struggle most with yourintuition and recognizing when
it is intuition?
Do you really struggle with theoverthinking?
Or is it that you reallystruggle when you're so easily
influenced by other people'semotional states?
I would love to know.
So again, come and find me andlet me know what's showing up
for you so that I can show up inlove and support for whatever it

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is that you need right now.
All right, well, I hope you havea great week and let's talk
soon.
Bye now.