💌 Love Letters | Issue 19: When Your Intuition Gets Louder

Have you noticed that sometimes your inner knowing feels faint… almost like it’s hiding?

Or maybe it’s easy to ignore, drowned out by noise, opinions, or old patterns of doubt.

The truth is: intuition doesn’t always speak over a nervous system that’s on high alert. 

It may have felt unsafe to listen in the past — not because your guidance was wrong, but because your body learned to protect you from perceived danger.

Here’s why:

• Past experiences: Perhaps in childhood, in relationships, or at work, expressing your wants or following your gut had consequences—like criticism, punishment, or emotional withdrawal. Your body learned to brace instead of trust.

• Conditioned messages: Messages like “Don’t be selfish,” “Don’t make waves,” or “Your feelings don’t matter” taught you to doubt yourself.

• Trauma or stress responses: Even subtle past threats can make your nervous system associate listening to your guidance with risk.

• Fear of outcomes: Sometimes the fear of what might happen if you act on your intuition is enough to shut you down, even when the guidance itself is good.

When your nervous system feels safe — physically, emotionally, and energetically — your intuition grows louder, clearer, and easier to trust. It’s not about thinking harder. It’s about creating the space for your knowing to rise.

Practice: Listening to Your Intuition Through Safety

Try this simple, playful exercise to reconnect with your body’s signals:

1. Start with a yes.
   Ask yourself simple, harmless questions:
   What’s my name?
   What’s my favorite food or show?
   Do I love my pet?

Notice how your body responds when you answer.
Where do you feel that answer in your body? A warmth in your chest? A smile on your lips? A sense of ease?

Feeling your answer is the beginning of listening to your body.

2. Try a no.
   Ask yourself questions you can confidently answer “no” to:
   Do I like sushi? No.
   Do I like cold weather? No.

Notice how your body feels as you answer. A subtle contraction? A shake of the head? A release?

Both yes and no answers carry guidance — and noticing them is your first step toward tuning into your intuition.

3. Check in with safety.
   Breathe. Ground yourself. Let your body soften.
   The more safe and supported you feel, the clearer your guidance becomes.

4. Affirm self-trust.
   Say: I can hear myself. I can trust my guidance. I am safe to know what I need.

✨ Journaling prompts for this week:

• When have I ignored my gut feeling in the past, and what happened as a result?
• Where in my body do I feel tension, hesitation, or clarity when making decisions?
• Which situations or people make it easiest for me to trust my intuition?
• What messages or beliefs have made me doubt my knowing, and how can I release them?
• How can I create more space and safety in my life to hear my inner guidance clearly?

This is a love letter to the part of you that has always known… even when it felt unsafe to listen. Every time you give your body and mind the space to soften, your intuition rises stronger. You are learning to trust yourself again — and that trust changes everything.

💜 Em

P.S. If you’re ready to deepen your ability to hear and act on your own guidance, my course Who You Are Meant to Be offers tools for tuning into your intuition while creating nervous system safety.

👉 Learn more here: EmilyBrownConsulting.com

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