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How Childhood Trauma Can Shape Intuition – The Science of Spiritual Gifts | Laura Day

Oct 20, 2025
Laura Day, a world-renowned intuitive and bestselling author, shares her journey of transforming childhood trauma into intuitive gifts. She explains how unique experiences can shape our intuition, highlighting the difference between intuition and wisdom. Laura discusses how trauma can both hinder and enhance our intuitive abilities and emphasizes practical methods for personal change. Listeners will learn about the significance of small, documented changes in life and how early experiences can uncover hidden strengths.
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ANECDOTE

Childhood Duty Sparked Intuition

  • Laura Day describes being the eldest child caring for three younger siblings from age five in a household with a manic depressive mother and violent father.
  • She credits that trauma for opening her intuition and later becoming a subject in scientific ESP research.
INSIGHT

Trauma Releases Untamed Intuition

  • Trauma prevents intuition from being safely contained, causing it to be overactive in children without adult containment.
  • That overactive intuition can become both a survival strength and a lifelong pattern needing refinement.
INSIGHT

Intuition Isn’t Always Helpful

  • Intuition can predict both disasters and successes, so raw intuitive hits can mislead without context.
  • Acting in the present, not freezing on future glimpses, is how intuition becomes useful.
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