Two Inconvenient Women What does it mean to 'trust our gut'?
Oct 17, 2025
What does it truly mean to trust our gut? Discover how intuition connects to our broader sense of body intelligence. Explore the difference between gut feelings and deeper intuitive insights, including how anxiety can cloud our instincts. Learn about the gut-brain connection and how we can reawaken our inner senses through self-awareness. The discussion delves into balancing emotional, logical, and instinctual responses while considering how education may affect our innate abilities. Finally, reflect on the interplay of instinct and intuition in both humans and animals.
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Hands As Antennae
- Making things with your hands soothes the nervous system and connects to deeper wellbeing.
- Creative manual acts function as 'antennae of the soul' that send healing signals inward.
Nettle Foraging And Tea Ritual
- Holly cultivated a nettle patch and drinks nettle tea each morning, reporting clearer mind and physical benefits.
- She learned to harvest nettles carefully so the plant regrows and to make rope and textiles from nettles.
Gut Versus Intuition
- Intuition and gut instinct are related but distinct: the gut gives immediate physiological signals while intuition weaves logic, emotion and deeper knowing.
- Balancing head, heart and gut yields wiser decisions than privileging reason alone.
