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Trusting Your Gut: Navigating Anxiety vs. Intuition

30 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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A short spoken YouTube presentation by Amber Hollingsworth about how gut feelings, anxiety, and intuition relate and how to tell them apart—especially in contexts of addiction (either one’s own or a loved one’s). The speaker frames practical dilemmas: distinguishing anxiety from intuition and deciding when to heed or override these feelings.

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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.