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Her name is intuition. (Free excerpt and newsletter!)
Hello friends!
I’m trying a new way of sharing free previews that I hope you like.
This week’s essay poured out of me at 4am after I awoke from a really powerful dream. For years I’ve fought to define the difference between anxiety and intuition, often just at a total loss for how to know which is which. As time has gone on my relationship with intuition has grown and strengthened, and I’ve been able to look back and see where the rupture between myself and my “knowing” first occurred.
Oh, if I could run a few miles and a decade back, what I would say to the woman I was, crumpled on the bathroom floor, sick with anxiety.
I hope you’ll read this one in full. It’s got to be one of my top favorites of all time. Here’s your excerpt:
EXCERPT
“Her name is Intuition”, I said to him in my dream. That place within myself that was making me panic, that part of myself that was deep within and yet bigger than me. It could see into rooms I wasn’t in. It peeked inside of other people. It had a tongue in the air, tasting energies, its delicate edges tracing between words that hung in the air around me, reading the empty spaces like braille. It spoke to me in sensation, sometimes sickeningly so.
In the dream I left his place and said again to anyone who would listen on my way home: “Her name is Intuition!!!”
Not Anxiety…
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Below are some quick links for you to more reading, listening, and practicing.
May you be well (cheap pun intended - but only because it’s one of my favorite songs),
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