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Anxiety vs. Intuition: How It Connects to Addiction

27 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth (speaker) explains the connection between gut anxiety and intuition and how they relate to addiction. She frames the topic for both people struggling with addiction and their loved ones: distinguishing anxiety from intuition can be difficult, and people must learn when to trust gut feelings (intuition) versus when to override urges/cravings (e.g., not act on them). The clip introduces the problem and foreshadows practical guidance on responding to cravings, urges, and anxious signals.

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So you might be thinking, what does gut anxiety intuition have to do with addiction? It has a whole lot to do with addiction. It is not specifically about addiction, but it definitely relates. For example, if you have a loved one struggling with addiction, you probably have a very hard time distinguishing between your anxiety and your intuition, and maybe even a harder time of knowing what to do with it. Same thing is if you have an addiction issue. You have a craving, you have an urge, you have an intuition. And we got to learn when to listen to it and when to I'm not going to say it, ignore it, but when to maybe override it.