Episode 15 - Trust Your Gut
Hello and welcome back to the TOUGH LOVE ENERGY podcast! This is the penultimate episode in this series, which has really flown by. I'm busy making lots of plans for the podcast in 2022 so keep your eyes, and ears, peeled for that!
In this week’s episode, I’m talking about the importance of being able to trust your gut. Whilst we might understand it, in principle, in practice, trusting your gut isn’t quite so straightforward for many of us.
Honestly, I can think of a few too many occasions where I simply ignored my own gut instinct; just because I thought I knew better. Of course, I know now how much better off I would have been, had I simply trusted the messages I received, but such is the benefit of hindsight!
Over the years, I’ve worked hard to become more familiar with the signs showing me how these messages show up for me so that I am better equipped to recognise and listen to them when they do arrive.
I like to think of our gut instinct as an extra sense, an extra resource, if you will, that can help us to determine how exactly we feel about something and then make an informed choice. Often, the most difficult part to grasp is in actually listening to this resource and then acting on the messages that we receive.
During the episode, I’ll explore some of the common reasons why we don’t always pay attention to our gut instinct. Chances are, you’ll recognise yourself in some of those – and perhaps even recall some scenarios where you know you should have listened but didn’t.
One of the most important things around listening to our gut is knowing exactly how it shows up for you because it’s often very different from person to person. I’ll give you some tips around recognising the signs from your own intuition, and how you can begin to listen more closely to its messages and really hear what it is telling you.
I see now that the times when I make the biggest mistakes are when I didn’t listen to my intuition. My advice to you is simply to start to listen, and over time, you’ll begin to trust yourself, and your gut instinct, so much more.
I hope this episode is helpful. I’d love to hear what you took away from it and to hear about times in your own life when you did, or didn’t, trust your instincts. You can connect with me over on Instagram here or alternatively, over in my Facebook community, The Changing Room. You can join us here.
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Until next time,
Niamh x