The Sabrina Zohar Show 170: Is It Your Intuition or Anxiety? How to Tell the Difference & Trust Your Gut
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Nov 7, 2025 This discussion dives into how attachment wounds can masquerade as gut feelings, complicating our instincts with anxious urgency. Sabrina shares personal anecdotes and highlights research showing how familiar patterns can distort our perception of safety and love. Listeners learn the difference between anxiety-fueled reactions and calm intuition, with practical steps to retrain their instincts. Discover how to slow down, recognize true emotional signals, and assess relationships with clarity—all while establishing healthier patterns.
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Pause Before Reacting
- Sabrina describes calmly pausing during a hurtful dinner comment to avoid reacting and escalate the situation.
- She validated her feeling, listed facts, then had a four-hour conversation and revisited it the next day to continue processing.
Attachment Style Alters Gut Accuracy
- A 2020 study found relationship gut-feelings were only 51% accurate overall but 71% for secure people and 34% for anxious people.
- Attachment style biases your gut, so anxious attachment lowers intuition accuracy dramatically.
Wound Distorts Social Perception
- Anxious people perceive neutral faces as more negative, creating a distortion lens on social cues.
- This bias leads to seeing threats that may not exist and fuels misinterpretation in relationships.