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💡 Trust your gut, they said

But how do you know if it’s really your gut talking, or just your anxious mind?

When we are in a state of anxiety, it can feel very challenging to differentiate between our gut and anxiety.

If you’re struggling with what feels like mixed messages on a situation or a decision in your life right now, keep reading.

1. Intuition whispers, anxiety screams. Intuition presents as a calm, clear, and grounded feeling about a situation or decision. It won’t feel frantic, or give you the sensation that you need to take action urgently. It tends to be consistent and peaceful, even if it’s nudging you towards a difficult choice. Anxiety manifests as frantic and fearful. It often feels urgent, and you may have the feeling that you need to take action on something immediately. It feels chaotic, and its message can change rapidly.

2. Your intuition is always there, but it may not be available to you right now. Intuition is inside all of us. It’s not something that some people have, and others don’t. We all have it. But that doesn’t mean it’s always accessible. Picture your intuition like a light at the core of you. Anxious thoughts are like cobwebs that cover over our Intuition, making it difficult to discern. To access our intuition, we need to clear the cobwebs.

3. To recognize your intuition, build a relationship with it. It's a lot harder to accurately recognize a distant relative you see once every few years than a sibling you see daily. To recognize your Intuition with ease, you have to build a relationship with it. You can do this through meditation.By learning to notice our racing thoughts, we can detach ourselves from them. By detaching from them, we can clear them. Meditation is the tool through which we clear the cobwebs and reconnect to our Intuition. The more time you spend there, the better you get to know it, and the more obvious the counterfeits become.When in doubt, quiet your thinking mind.

🧠 1% smarter

If you listen to one thing this week, let it be this:

Diary of a CEO: The Pregnancy Doctor Episode

Format: PodcastTime Commitment: 2h 22 minsWhy bother: Did you know that mens’ sperm only last 90 days while women are born with all of the eggs they are ever going to have in their lifetime? Either did I. No matter your gender or stage of life, this is an excellent conversation covering so many facets of women’s and men’s health + fertility. I learned so much about my own body and this episode inspired me to get some of my own fertility & hormone testing done this week. A must listen for anyone and everyone in my book, no matter where you are in life.

🫶 From me

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• As always, questions, suggestions and feedback are welcomed and encouraged! Just reply to this email.

That’s all for now. Thank you for being here!

See you next week.

xx Brooke