July 23, 2024 • 21 mins
"We have this innate natural connection to our inner knowing and our gut instinct. However, here is the problem for us - historically, that's not been okay."
"I am disconnected from my inner knowing." This is a far-too-common experience for us, so this week on the podcast, we delve into the deep journey of reconnecting with our inner wisdom and gut instinct during midlife and menopause.
I share personal experiences and insights, we examine how the historical suppression of women's intuition has impacted our modern-day connection with inner knowing.
Amid the hormonal flux and psychological changes of perimenopause, many women feel a disconnection from their intuition, leading to dissatisfaction and uncertainty about their path and life choices.
However, this stage also holds immense potential for rekindling our relationship with our inner wisdom, leading to profound shifts in perspectives and life choices.
I also offer a journaling prompt to help you embark on the journey of self-inquiry and rediscovery of your innate knowing.
Journal Prompts:
Reflect on a time when you felt strong gut instinct or inner knowing about a decision or situation. And then write about how you responded to that feeling. And what was the outcome? What can this experience teach you about trusting your intuition more now in your current stage of life.
Join me in exploring the transformative potential of tapping into our gut instinct and inner knowing during midlife, paving the way for greater self-trust and clarity.
Got questions or insights to share from your own menopause journey? Reach out to me and let's continue this conversation. Visit my website to learn more about the episode and join my midlife community.
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(00:53):
Well hello my friend, welcome to the podcast, so glad that you are here.
At the moment we've got two cohorts of the Midlife Upgrade course running.
One is coming to an end and we have our final live Zoom call this week and it's been such a.
Inspiring deep dive and seeing these really natural shifts in women's perspective
(01:16):
and also assumptions about themselves has been incredibly rewarding.
For me, as somebody who has worked with people for over 20 years,
normally one-to-one with some group teaching thrown in.
Now that I'm more working with groups, I'm discovering so much more the power of the group dynamic.
(01:39):
Not to fix or to change, but to hold space in a very simple,
human, heart-to-heart, non-judgmental way.
And when that happens, my God, the changes, then the insights and the courage
that we can tap into as women is so profound.
(02:01):
And one of the topics that's been coming up and does
come up every time I run this group and it'll
have different wordings from different people but
it's this idea that we've become separated from our inner knowing from our gut
instinct from our deep knowing intuition and if you're more of a spiritual kind
(02:25):
of person then that might be something that you're really already
tapping into and really, really interested in.
I know for myself, having gone through the whole gamut of different forms of
spirituality and right now in this very natural,
mundane, but open to the incredible miracle of life and this deep body awareness
(02:49):
that there is so much more to life that we never ever see,
while we're in this body, I know that we don't need to be a spiritual person,
in quote marks, to have a deep connection with our inner knowing and to have
that communicate to us and work for us in our everyday life.
(03:11):
And I know that because I speak to many women who would never say for themselves
that they're a spiritual person, they might be in management.
I work with a lot of teachers, a lot of women in the helping professions and
a lot of women who work in commerce.
All of these women, what we all have in common is that we have this innate,
(03:35):
natural connection to our inner knowing and our gut instinct.
However, here is the problem for us.
Historically, that's not been okay. Historically, when a woman has been deeply
connected to her inner knowing, to her intuition, we have had periods in history
(03:55):
where our life would have been in danger.
We may have been burned as a witch, we may have been ostracized from communities.
And so we have this blocking or dumbing down of a woman's innate connection
with her inner knowing so that we have a fundamental problem that a woman's
intuition historically has been deemed as being dangerous,
(04:18):
as being something that we don't want to give credence to, something that we
don't want to give support to flourish in.
And flower, which is probably why it shows up much more often in our spiritual
communities than it does, say, in the boardroom.
And yet, you talk to many people who are in business,
(04:41):
male, female, or other genders, and they will tell you that a lot of their decision-making
includes rational thinking, thinking includes data,
but good decision-making also includes tapping into our inner knowing.
And so I think it's a really important topic for all of us.
(05:02):
And for most of the women that I talk to through my course, they report that
they feel disconnected from their inner knowing, from their gut instinct.
And some of us may have had experience of our inner knowing or our intuition when we were children,
when we were connected with nature, we're out in nature and we're feeling that
(05:25):
just that deep openness with life itself or nature itself.
I'm taking myself back to when I was a child in the forest, in the bush in New
Zealand and felt so very open and as if I was in communication with the bush around me,
with the trees and the ground and the streams and the sky around me.
(05:47):
And it's very normal that that experience of oneness with nature and with our
natural self diminishes as we get older.
And you know it's easy to blame systems social
media schooling all the rest of it it's also a really
natural progression that we
come into a more rational thinking way
(06:09):
of being as very young adults and then you're coming into that that stage of
life which is called your Saturn return is around 28 where you looking at how
you've been raised and the values and the morals and the
rules and the societal expectations.
And you're deciding through that Saturn return period, is this for me?
(06:34):
Am I keeping this? Am I letting this go? And you see people around that age,
and it can certainly happen a lot later.
We discard what no longer serves us from
our family of origin and we kind of write our own
story and that's where we start to have the
potential to connect probably in a different way in a more mature way to our
(06:57):
own inner knowing however modern culture is not set up for that so we have all
of that historic dampening down of a woman's intuition which we know about that the.
Rational mind became the king of knowing and that still holds true to this day in the majority.
Of course, things are changing and we're seeing much more around the connection
(07:22):
of the mind and the body and the rational thinking mind and the heart knowing
and the gut knowing working together.
So as women, we come into perimenopause and midlife,
and you might feel quite disconnected from your inner knowing,
particularly if you have been in the business of raising children,
(07:47):
of having a career, of now you're dealing with teenage children,
if you've had children, and aging parents.
You're in that sandwich stage of life.
There is much less time to give to ourselves.
And what ignites our flame of inner knowing and awareness is really time to
(08:09):
reflect on ourselves, on our inner landscape. And that doesn't have to be hours
and days and weeks and months.
It can be pockets of time of doing nothing, like when we were a child, right?
I talked about that experience of my own in the bush, in the forest,
and how connected I felt to all that is.
(08:30):
And so if you are feeling, there must be something more to my life than this,
I want you to know that you are absolutely not alone.
That in every single group of midlife
women that I work with it comes up time
and time again we might label it differently but it
(08:51):
is that shared experience of disconnection from our inner knowing so come we're
here now in perimenopause we have the sense of something's missing some of that
is about my gut instinct and my connection to myself there'll be many other aspects to it as well.
But we've got this big flux of hormones, this lowering of estrogen,
(09:14):
and studies show us that our brain starts to change through this time.
And what was the other time that our brain changed?
One of the other times that our brain changed a lot, it was in our teenage years,
when we had the incoming flux of hormones.
So now we've got this reducing flux of hormones And this can take place for years and years.
(09:38):
We can be in perimenopause, early postmenopause.
And the connections and the pathways in our brain are changing.
And so this is a really, really beautiful time to start to be curious about
our fixed perceptions of ourself, of our life, of our career, of the world around us.
(10:00):
And this is for many women, it's a very stormy time physically because you've
got all of the physical symptoms going on, but also psychologically.
And the psychological symptoms of perimenopause arise fairly early on in the
piece, earlier for many women than, say, hot flushes.
(10:20):
We might notice a dissatisfaction with the way life is or our part in life.
We might notice that we are more irritable than normal or we just feel more flat.
At and that might be our physical vital energy but it
also can be this psychological get up and go
and I know for myself I became
(10:43):
very disorganized in perimenopause and I just felt like everything was too overwhelming
to get things in order and so my house became much more unorganized than what
it used to be and I didn't really understand that that was a part of that menopausal journey until Till now,
I'm out the other side and things are becoming more orderly.
(11:05):
It's much more easy for me to declutter, to put things in their place, step by step, of course.
And I know that I'm not alone in this. And if that's your experience too,
I want you to know that you're not alone in this either.
So we've got this change happening in our brain and this has a massive potential
for you to be able to reconnect with your gut instinct and your intuition.
(11:30):
So think of a woman and she's in midlife, she's in a job and all around her
is going through a restructure.
And prior to getting to really know herself and her inner knowing,
she was quite understandably freaking out that she was going to lose her job.
(11:52):
And then she opens the doorway
to understanding from that deeper perspective she
creates a perspective shift she gets in touch with
her inner knowing and her gut instinct and something tells her why don't you
look for another job that is less stressful yes there may be a pay drop but
think about all that space that you're now going to have in your life and to
(12:16):
do that she would need to untangle herself from her professional persona.
It is normal and expected that we're a little bit bound up with our professional identity.
Again, that's part of our conditioning, right? But this mid-life time is a beautiful
time where you can disentangle from that and look around and what happens is
(12:37):
the blinkers come off and you're much more able to choose, where do I want to go?
So I've seen this for numerous women. When we start working together,
they're really, really worried about their career and their job,
whether it's because of restructuring or that they're just not interested in that work anymore.
More, and they're really unsure about what the next step is.
(12:58):
So then what we do is we, and this is kind of a how-to for all of us,
we take a step back and we use some of the tools that I teach to reconnect to
your inner knowing, because it's in there for every single one of us.
It is something special, but it's not something unique to just a few people.
(13:18):
This is a really normal part of being a human, is being able to listen to more
of our knowing than just our rational thinking mind.
And when we're in that place where we can communicate with both our logical
rational mind and our deep gut instinct,
knowing, you know, you just have that niggle in your gut of there's a sort of
(13:40):
a warning flag here with this path, or this feels to me very open.
And I'm all about listening to that gut feeling and
then also paying attention to our rational thinking
mind and looking at the structures and is
this a wise thing for me to do from that place but
when we've taken that step back and we've been able to
(14:02):
reconnect with our gut instinct then what happens
it's kind of like a little mini miracle I'm
thinking about many clients here along the way where because
our perspective has shifted we've taken
the blinkers off and the possibilities for our
next step opens right up there's
(14:24):
some kind of spacious awareness that
then happens and we can see opportunities paths
next step forward that we hadn't been able to see before And I've seen women's
lives change dramatically and significantly for the better when they've been
able to make that perspective shift and that reconnection to their inner knowing.
(14:50):
And how do we do this? Well, I'm going to tell you, of course,
that I think we do this really well in my Midlife Upgrade course.
There is a shift that happens in the first two to three weeks.
Where we just very naturally reconnect to our inner knowing because we bring
in some more curiosity around these fixed perspectives and perceptions and we
(15:15):
start to think about and consider,
is this really how I want to be in the world?
What will happen if I continue down this path for the next five or 10 years?
What is my life likely to look at? And I might think,
and I I do this very often I might
think that I have no choices in this
(15:35):
matter because I need a set income to come
in for my family this is what I've always done I haven't trained in anything
else if we're thinking about a workplace situation but I've just seen it too
many times where we shift perspective we step back we connect reconnect to our
gut instinct and our heart wisdom and then our choices open up.
(15:57):
It's like we put on a whole new pair of glasses and we can see the world very differently.
So that happens most potently. In my experience, it is ignited by a particular
whole way of holding space and inquiry and curiosity that we do through my program.
But you can also do that for yourself by getting really curious about your fixed
(16:22):
structures structures of perception.
So I'm going to give you one journal prompt that will help you to explore your
own inner knowings that you can use for yourself to start the inquiry process.
So journaling in this way where you have a few journal prompts or questions,
lines of inquiry, and you take one of them and you just let yourself free write.
(16:46):
Don't censor yourself. yourself whatever the first word
is that falls out of your mind and wants to be written
on paper you just write it so that's a flow of consciousness writing and and
you don't look back over it and edit it until you get to the end and when you
get to the end and i'm going to give you the question soon when you get to the
end of your writing your journal piece then read back over it and notice Notice how you feel.
(17:12):
Notice what arises inside you and make any notes that are arising about your perception.
It's very, very insightful. We very often write things that we didn't know we
were thinking and we look back over them and they become clear as day to us,
but we didn't know that was going on in our consciousness.
(17:32):
And I'll put these in the show notes so that you can go back to them and you
can use them for some journaling prompts.
So the first one is reflect on a time when you felt a strong gut instinct or
inner knowing about a decision or situation and then write about how you responded
to that feeling and what was the outcome.
And what can this experience teach you about trusting your intuition more now
(17:55):
in your current stage of life?
And what pops into my mind now for myself is a time where.
25 years ago and I rented a little beautiful little house, half house in Auckland
and I just had a gut instinct about the situation that was like there's an alert here,
(18:17):
something's not quite right but because it was so gorgeous and it was really
close to the beach, it was in my price range,
it really felt like what I needed and there wasn't anything else that I could see, I went for it.
And turns out I had to leave that place pretty soon after things weren't great
(18:38):
with the landlord and one of the neighbors were in an abusive relationship.
I had a newborn baby and it was not the environment that I hoped it would be.
I'd often have the warning gut instinct and because I try and push my life into
certain places where I want it to go, I will put that aside and to my detriment
(19:01):
as I learn down the track.
But life is for learning and so I don't regret those decisions.
I am continuing on to learn and lean into my own gut instinct as well.
Have a play with that, with your journaling and see what comes through.
Let me know. I love hearing from you, your experiences of the podcast.
Sometimes women message me and say, hey, I listened to your podcast.
(19:24):
It came up at the exact right time when I was considering this problem.
And I really needed to hear that in that moment. And then I got another sign
from life where it was affirming my choice.
I've had that reported to me numerous times.
And I think it's just so exciting because I try and speak on these podcasts
(19:44):
based on what I'm feeling in our our collective consciousness,
as if it's some kind of answer or support from life itself.
And so if you ever have that experience, do let me know, because it gives me
just a little, a gorgeous little thrill that it has really met you in the right
(20:06):
place for where you need it to be.
That's the end of our show today. Play with reconnecting with your inner wisdom
and your your gut instinct.
And even if you don't feel like you have any connection to it at all,
trust me when I tell you it is there.
It might just need a little tender, loving support to be uncovered for you to
(20:27):
reconnect to it again with your conscious mind. All right, my friend.
Well hello my friend, welcome to the podcast, so glad that you are here.
At the moment we've got two cohorts of the Midlife Upgrade course running.
One is coming to an end and we have our final live Zoom call this week and it's been such a.
Inspiring deep dive and seeing these really natural shifts in women's perspective
(01:16):
and also assumptions about themselves has been incredibly rewarding.
For me, as somebody who has worked with people for over 20 years,
normally one-to-one with some group teaching thrown in.
Now that I'm more working with groups, I'm discovering so much more the power of the group dynamic.
(01:39):
Not to fix or to change, but to hold space in a very simple,
human, heart-to-heart, non-judgmental way.
And when that happens, my God, the changes, then the insights and the courage
that we can tap into as women is so profound.
(02:01):
And one of the topics that's been coming up and does
come up every time I run this group and it'll
have different wordings from different people but
it's this idea that we've become separated from our inner knowing from our gut
instinct from our deep knowing intuition and if you're more of a spiritual kind
(02:25):
of person then that might be something that you're really already
tapping into and really, really interested in.
I know for myself, having gone through the whole gamut of different forms of
spirituality and right now in this very natural,
mundane, but open to the incredible miracle of life and this deep body awareness
(02:49):
that there is so much more to life that we never ever see,
while we're in this body, I know that we don't need to be a spiritual person,
in quote marks, to have a deep connection with our inner knowing and to have
that communicate to us and work for us in our everyday life.
(03:11):
And I know that because I speak to many women who would never say for themselves
that they're a spiritual person, they might be in management.
I work with a lot of teachers, a lot of women in the helping professions and
a lot of women who work in commerce.
All of these women, what we all have in common is that we have this innate,
(03:35):
natural connection to our inner knowing and our gut instinct.
However, here is the problem for us.
Historically, that's not been okay. Historically, when a woman has been deeply
connected to her inner knowing, to her intuition, we have had periods in history
(03:55):
where our life would have been in danger.
We may have been burned as a witch, we may have been ostracized from communities.
And so we have this blocking or dumbing down of a woman's innate connection
with her inner knowing so that we have a fundamental problem that a woman's
intuition historically has been deemed as being dangerous,
(04:18):
as being something that we don't want to give credence to, something that we
don't want to give support to flourish in.
And flower, which is probably why it shows up much more often in our spiritual
communities than it does, say, in the boardroom.
And yet, you talk to many people who are in business,
(04:41):
male, female, or other genders, and they will tell you that a lot of their decision-making
includes rational thinking, thinking includes data,
but good decision-making also includes tapping into our inner knowing.
And so I think it's a really important topic for all of us.
(05:02):
And for most of the women that I talk to through my course, they report that
they feel disconnected from their inner knowing, from their gut instinct.
And some of us may have had experience of our inner knowing or our intuition when we were children,
when we were connected with nature, we're out in nature and we're feeling that
(05:25):
just that deep openness with life itself or nature itself.
I'm taking myself back to when I was a child in the forest, in the bush in New
Zealand and felt so very open and as if I was in communication with the bush around me,
with the trees and the ground and the streams and the sky around me.
(05:47):
And it's very normal that that experience of oneness with nature and with our
natural self diminishes as we get older.
And you know it's easy to blame systems social
media schooling all the rest of it it's also a really
natural progression that we
come into a more rational thinking way
(06:09):
of being as very young adults and then you're coming into that that stage of
life which is called your Saturn return is around 28 where you looking at how
you've been raised and the values and the morals and the
rules and the societal expectations.
And you're deciding through that Saturn return period, is this for me?
(06:34):
Am I keeping this? Am I letting this go? And you see people around that age,
and it can certainly happen a lot later.
We discard what no longer serves us from
our family of origin and we kind of write our own
story and that's where we start to have the
potential to connect probably in a different way in a more mature way to our
(06:57):
own inner knowing however modern culture is not set up for that so we have all
of that historic dampening down of a woman's intuition which we know about that the.
Rational mind became the king of knowing and that still holds true to this day in the majority.
Of course, things are changing and we're seeing much more around the connection
(07:22):
of the mind and the body and the rational thinking mind and the heart knowing
and the gut knowing working together.
So as women, we come into perimenopause and midlife,
and you might feel quite disconnected from your inner knowing,
particularly if you have been in the business of raising children,
(07:47):
of having a career, of now you're dealing with teenage children,
if you've had children, and aging parents.
You're in that sandwich stage of life.
There is much less time to give to ourselves.
And what ignites our flame of inner knowing and awareness is really time to
(08:09):
reflect on ourselves, on our inner landscape. And that doesn't have to be hours
and days and weeks and months.
It can be pockets of time of doing nothing, like when we were a child, right?
I talked about that experience of my own in the bush, in the forest,
and how connected I felt to all that is.
(08:30):
And so if you are feeling, there must be something more to my life than this,
I want you to know that you are absolutely not alone.
That in every single group of midlife
women that I work with it comes up time
and time again we might label it differently but it
(08:51):
is that shared experience of disconnection from our inner knowing so come we're
here now in perimenopause we have the sense of something's missing some of that
is about my gut instinct and my connection to myself there'll be many other aspects to it as well.
But we've got this big flux of hormones, this lowering of estrogen,
(09:14):
and studies show us that our brain starts to change through this time.
And what was the other time that our brain changed?
One of the other times that our brain changed a lot, it was in our teenage years,
when we had the incoming flux of hormones.
So now we've got this reducing flux of hormones And this can take place for years and years.
(09:38):
We can be in perimenopause, early postmenopause.
And the connections and the pathways in our brain are changing.
And so this is a really, really beautiful time to start to be curious about
our fixed perceptions of ourself, of our life, of our career, of the world around us.
(10:00):
And this is for many women, it's a very stormy time physically because you've
got all of the physical symptoms going on, but also psychologically.
And the psychological symptoms of perimenopause arise fairly early on in the
piece, earlier for many women than, say, hot flushes.
(10:20):
We might notice a dissatisfaction with the way life is or our part in life.
We might notice that we are more irritable than normal or we just feel more flat.
At and that might be our physical vital energy but it
also can be this psychological get up and go
and I know for myself I became
(10:43):
very disorganized in perimenopause and I just felt like everything was too overwhelming
to get things in order and so my house became much more unorganized than what
it used to be and I didn't really understand that that was a part of that menopausal journey until Till now,
I'm out the other side and things are becoming more orderly.
(11:05):
It's much more easy for me to declutter, to put things in their place, step by step, of course.
And I know that I'm not alone in this. And if that's your experience too,
I want you to know that you're not alone in this either.
So we've got this change happening in our brain and this has a massive potential
for you to be able to reconnect with your gut instinct and your intuition.
(11:30):
So think of a woman and she's in midlife, she's in a job and all around her
is going through a restructure.
And prior to getting to really know herself and her inner knowing,
she was quite understandably freaking out that she was going to lose her job.
(11:52):
And then she opens the doorway
to understanding from that deeper perspective she
creates a perspective shift she gets in touch with
her inner knowing and her gut instinct and something tells her why don't you
look for another job that is less stressful yes there may be a pay drop but
think about all that space that you're now going to have in your life and to
(12:16):
do that she would need to untangle herself from her professional persona.
It is normal and expected that we're a little bit bound up with our professional identity.
Again, that's part of our conditioning, right? But this mid-life time is a beautiful
time where you can disentangle from that and look around and what happens is
(12:37):
the blinkers come off and you're much more able to choose, where do I want to go?
So I've seen this for numerous women. When we start working together,
they're really, really worried about their career and their job,
whether it's because of restructuring or that they're just not interested in that work anymore.
More, and they're really unsure about what the next step is.
(12:58):
So then what we do is we, and this is kind of a how-to for all of us,
we take a step back and we use some of the tools that I teach to reconnect to
your inner knowing, because it's in there for every single one of us.
It is something special, but it's not something unique to just a few people.
(13:18):
This is a really normal part of being a human, is being able to listen to more
of our knowing than just our rational thinking mind.
And when we're in that place where we can communicate with both our logical
rational mind and our deep gut instinct,
knowing, you know, you just have that niggle in your gut of there's a sort of
(13:40):
a warning flag here with this path, or this feels to me very open.
And I'm all about listening to that gut feeling and
then also paying attention to our rational thinking
mind and looking at the structures and is
this a wise thing for me to do from that place but
when we've taken that step back and we've been able to
(14:02):
reconnect with our gut instinct then what happens
it's kind of like a little mini miracle I'm
thinking about many clients here along the way where because
our perspective has shifted we've taken
the blinkers off and the possibilities for our
next step opens right up there's
(14:24):
some kind of spacious awareness that
then happens and we can see opportunities paths
next step forward that we hadn't been able to see before And I've seen women's
lives change dramatically and significantly for the better when they've been
able to make that perspective shift and that reconnection to their inner knowing.
(14:50):
And how do we do this? Well, I'm going to tell you, of course,
that I think we do this really well in my Midlife Upgrade course.
There is a shift that happens in the first two to three weeks.
Where we just very naturally reconnect to our inner knowing because we bring
in some more curiosity around these fixed perspectives and perceptions and we
(15:15):
start to think about and consider,
is this really how I want to be in the world?
What will happen if I continue down this path for the next five or 10 years?
What is my life likely to look at? And I might think,
and I I do this very often I might
think that I have no choices in this
(15:35):
matter because I need a set income to come
in for my family this is what I've always done I haven't trained in anything
else if we're thinking about a workplace situation but I've just seen it too
many times where we shift perspective we step back we connect reconnect to our
gut instinct and our heart wisdom and then our choices open up.
(15:57):
It's like we put on a whole new pair of glasses and we can see the world very differently.
So that happens most potently. In my experience, it is ignited by a particular
whole way of holding space and inquiry and curiosity that we do through my program.
But you can also do that for yourself by getting really curious about your fixed
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structures structures of perception.
So I'm going to give you one journal prompt that will help you to explore your
own inner knowings that you can use for yourself to start the inquiry process.
So journaling in this way where you have a few journal prompts or questions,
lines of inquiry, and you take one of them and you just let yourself free write.
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Don't censor yourself. yourself whatever the first word
is that falls out of your mind and wants to be written
on paper you just write it so that's a flow of consciousness writing and and
you don't look back over it and edit it until you get to the end and when you
get to the end and i'm going to give you the question soon when you get to the
end of your writing your journal piece then read back over it and notice Notice how you feel.
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Notice what arises inside you and make any notes that are arising about your perception.
It's very, very insightful. We very often write things that we didn't know we
were thinking and we look back over them and they become clear as day to us,
but we didn't know that was going on in our consciousness.
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And I'll put these in the show notes so that you can go back to them and you
can use them for some journaling prompts.
So the first one is reflect on a time when you felt a strong gut instinct or
inner knowing about a decision or situation and then write about how you responded
to that feeling and what was the outcome.
And what can this experience teach you about trusting your intuition more now
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in your current stage of life?
And what pops into my mind now for myself is a time where.
25 years ago and I rented a little beautiful little house, half house in Auckland
and I just had a gut instinct about the situation that was like there's an alert here,
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something's not quite right but because it was so gorgeous and it was really
close to the beach, it was in my price range,
it really felt like what I needed and there wasn't anything else that I could see, I went for it.
And turns out I had to leave that place pretty soon after things weren't great
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with the landlord and one of the neighbors were in an abusive relationship.
I had a newborn baby and it was not the environment that I hoped it would be.
I'd often have the warning gut instinct and because I try and push my life into
certain places where I want it to go, I will put that aside and to my detriment
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as I learn down the track.
But life is for learning and so I don't regret those decisions.
I am continuing on to learn and lean into my own gut instinct as well.
Have a play with that, with your journaling and see what comes through.
Let me know. I love hearing from you, your experiences of the podcast.
Sometimes women message me and say, hey, I listened to your podcast.
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It came up at the exact right time when I was considering this problem.
And I really needed to hear that in that moment. And then I got another sign
from life where it was affirming my choice.
I've had that reported to me numerous times.
And I think it's just so exciting because I try and speak on these podcasts
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based on what I'm feeling in our our collective consciousness,
as if it's some kind of answer or support from life itself.
And so if you ever have that experience, do let me know, because it gives me
just a little, a gorgeous little thrill that it has really met you in the right
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place for where you need it to be.
That's the end of our show today. Play with reconnecting with your inner wisdom
and your your gut instinct.
And even if you don't feel like you have any connection to it at all,
trust me when I tell you it is there.
It might just need a little tender, loving support to be uncovered for you to
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reconnect to it again with your conscious mind. All right, my friend.
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