I Want To Trust My Gut – But How?!

"I'm a betrayal trauma victim. I want to trust my gut, but I don't know how!" If you've tried to reconnect with your intuition but feel blocked, confused, frustrated - or just don't know how - you're not alone.  Dr. Piper Grant, founder of Numi Psychology, shares her expertise on women's intuition on The BTR.ORG Podcast and in the full transcript below. Take Baby Steps to Reconnect With Your Intuition  You can take simple steps to start reconnecting with your intuition. Dr. Grant suggests simply being aware of the emotional and physical sensations you may experience when your gut instincts are reacting to a situation:  Studies have shown that when something doesn't make sense, there's actually a surge of dopamine in the brain. You know when we say, 'In my body it just didn't feel right?' That's actually true. There's not only a psychological process happening but there's actually a physiological process as well.  Your brain and your body are saying, 'Something is different here'.  Let's be aware of this. Whether it's good or bad, let's be aware of this.  Dr. Piper Grant, founder of Numi Psychology Practice Compassion & Kindness Towards Self It just starts first with loving kindness towards self. Sometimes as women we want to be hard on ourselves. We are like, 'Why didn't I see that? " Or, 'Why didn't I know?"', Or ' Why did I ignore that red flag?"  Dr. Piper Grant,  founder of Numi Psychology Many women in the BTR.ORG community have experienced feelings of self-betrayal. If you felt that you had to ignore or suppress your gut instincts, please offer yourself compassion, as this may have been a way to survive a dangerous situation.  BTR.ORG Is Here For You As you begin the process of reconnecting with your gut instincts, please know that you have support. Consider attending a BTR.ORG Group Session today.  Full Transcript: Today I have Dr. Piper Grant. Welcome Piper! We are so happy to have you! Piper: Thank you! I'm so excited to be here today! Intuition and Gut Instinct Are Warning Signs, Both Negative And Positive Anne: We are going to talk today about women's intuition, getting in touch with ourselves and reconnecting to ourselves after betrayal or even in the midst of it in order to figure out what we need to do. I'm not going to call you Dr. Grant today, I'm going  to call you Piper because I love the name Piper. What is gut instinct and why is it so important for women? Piper: It's such a gift as women that we have this gut instinct and innate ability to have these signals throughout our life. It is the first warning signals about something, both negative and positive. I say both negative and positive because you can have somebody say something along the lines of, 'I just knew that's what I needed to do!' Especially when we're talking about partner recovery. We often will say something along the lines of, ‘I just felt like something was off’, or that something was wrong or not right. So it helps us judge. It's a warning signal. Intuition Is Felt in Body and Mind The thing that is interesting about our gut instinct and the way it works is that it works as an unconscious process. It's something that we aren't even always aware is going on. What happens is our conscious brain is looking at things and we're making sense of them but our unconscious brain is working almost like a jigsaw puzzle. It's putting pieces together. When pieces don't fit together it's like, 'Something is wrong.  Something is different here.'  It sends a warning signal. The thing that is interesting about our gut instinct and the way it works is that it works as an unconscious process.