"Intuition is looking within for the answers."

"Learn to differentiate between the sound of your intuition guiding you and your traumas misleading you." - The Minds Journal

Growing up I experienced various traumas. These experiences shaped me some in a negative way like struggling with anger, and some in a protective manner like my intuition. A privilege as a women is being encouraged and allowed to trust my feelings because society deems it appropriate for women to be emotional. Men however do not get taught nor encouraged to trust their feelings or even feel them.

As a clinician I encourage all my clients to feel all their emotions and to learn to trust themselves. When we grow up in trauma we have to learn to survive so we learn to pick up queues that keep us safe. Like dad’s drinking whiskey I will be locked in the room so that I don’t get lashed out at or if someone’s energy is low they are upset with us and conflict will ensue. As we get older though our thoughts get convoluted and losing touch with ourselves we stop being able to decipher our truth from our fears.

Glennon Doyle has a whole chapter in her book “Untamed” about spending time with yourself and developing your knowing. Doyle depends on her knowing and encourages her team to make decisions they feel are right. When we take time regularly to sit with our emotions and process our wounds we can start identifying why are body is responding the way it does. When we reach this point we can identify why we have that unsettling feeling in the pit of our stomach.

Once we have learned to communicate with our feelings and body queues when things aren’t right our trauma gut will communicate it to us. This journey can be tricky and if you are ready to take that step reach out to us at bettertomorrowfl.com and we can help you on your journey.