Rita sighed at the beginning of this one. She gets it.
You’ve been told to trust your gut. To listen to your instinct. But here’s the thing — anxiety and intuition can feel almost identical. And this episode is about learning to tell them apart.
In this episode:
* Why anxiety and intuition feel so similar — and why that’s not a personal failing
* The lights on the dashboard — the specific words and phrases that tell me I’ve gone into fight or flight before I’ve even noticed
* “I must be missing something” — my personal red light, and what it taught me about my own patterns
* Why we don’t want to skip the adversity — just the unnecessary suffering
* Journaling as a tool for pattern recognition — how to look back without judgment and forward with curiosity
* The five women I trust implicitly — and how community is one of my most important self-trust tools
* What I say to my partner when I suspect I’m triggered — and why having that practice in place means we don’t create harm
* The urgency test — anxiety says it has to happen today. Knowing is expansive. It can wait until tomorrow.
* The mountain walks, the fear of heights melting, and the pull towards wild swimming that I know is coming — that’s intuition. Not urgent. Just certain.
* The gap between knowing and acting — from every relationship I’ve ever ended, I can pinpoint the exact moment I knew. The gap just got shorter each time.
Three questions to sit with this week:
* How does anxiety feel in your body versus intuition?
* How does urgency feel versus trust?
* What practice would you like to start building to tell them apart — and what’s one small thing you could start this week?
The quiet voice doesn’t get louder. You get quieter.
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