Aware And Prepared
Hello! This is the Aware and Prepared podcast. I'm your host, Mandi Pratt, a trained domestic violence advocate. I teach women and vulnerable populations how to be street smart. I'm a mom with a gnarly backstory from almost two decades ago. The FBI showed up at my door one day to alert me that my abusive ex had become wanted for multiple bank robberies. Our story was in the news (a few times). I was tired of feeling vulnerable and learned how to keep myself and my son safer. I wish when I was a young woman I'd known about red flags to watch for in relationships, and had learned how to be street smart. This podcast is for 15-year-old me and is meant for families and community groups to listen to together. After all, women's safety is a community issue. I'll share with you stories like mine and interview detectives, psychologists and many other experts to NOT only hear their jaw-dropping stories, but also what we learn from them to prevent harm for our every youth and grown up listening. I don't want anyone else to have to go through what I did - scared, vulnerable and needing decades of counseling and healthcare to heal. I want you to feel safer with less fear and more power!
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Aware And Prepared
Clear Mental Clutter: A Simple Way to Unlock Your Intuition
The next step—writing or talking it out in this third episode of the Intuition Activation Challenge. Mandi shares how freeing up mental clutter can reveal hidden truths we might not even realize we’re holding onto. Whether you prefer journaling, talking with a trusted friend, or even walking it out, this exercise helps you process what your intuition is telling you. See what patterns or insights emerge!
RESOURCES
🔹 Intuition Quiz – Find out how well you trust and act on your intuition: AwareAndPrepared.life (Scroll to the bottom and click "Take the Quiz")
🔹 Intuition Activation Challenge PDF – You’ll get the Challenge PDF after you receive your quiz results
🔹 Connect with Mandi
📌 LinkedIn: Mandi Pratt
📌 Instagram: @WomenAwareAndPrepared
Hey, brave one. Welcome to another episode of the Aware and Prepared Podcast. I'm your host, Mandy Pratt, a trained domestic violence victim advocate, self-defense teacher, and professional speaker who teaches those feeling vulnerable, how to be street smart and feel safer with more peace, you'll hear true crime stories, but most importantly, how we might prevent crimes happening to us.
Without judgment or shame, of course. You deserve to live in peace and safety. So return each week to learn safety tips and emotional self-defense. So we live empowered with peace. Let's be less naive and leave helplessness and worry behind so we can be safer, savvy, aware, and unprepared.
Okay, welcome back to day three. How are you liking the Intuition Activation Challenge? This five part series that we're doing, day one is the first activity, day two is the second activity, and so on and so forth, down to day five. So each of these steps, I've broken down into a weekly podcast episode for you, and I hope that you're loving it.
If you haven't had a chance yet to go, take the quick little quiz and see how you're even doing with the intuition. And then you'll see after you take the quiz where you can download the challenge, then please go to Aware and Prepared Life LIFE. I'll drop the link into the show notes so you can just click there.
And then on aware and prepared Life where it says, take the quiz and you can see how you're doing. I hope you're loving it and it's helping you. So, day one was slowed down. You spent five minutes with yourself just breathing and paying attention to your thoughts, whether you were seated or walking, whatever worked for you.
What did you notice? How did your body feel? What thoughts were you observing without judging yourself? Day two was listening inward and asking yourself, what do I need right now? Did you do the thing that you needed? Maybe spending time with yourself? Maybe it was taking a walk out in nature. Maybe it was talking with a friend.
Did you actually do it? If you didn't, that's okay. No worries. Just put it into your calendar or jot it down on a post-it note. So day three, expounds on day two. So that's write or talk it out. Why? You guys know the answer to this. Freeing up mental clutter often reveals truths that you didn't realize you were thinking or feeling.
And if you're not a journal type of person, that's totally okay. Maybe it works better for you to talk it out with a friend, or maybe you walk it out, right? So again, take another walk and just either write or talk out. What's coming up for you? Clear that mental clutter and reveal the truths that you know you're thinking or feeling.
So let's actually make this into a role play type of thing, right? So let's take my instance from my own story, where there was one red flag that I didn't really do anything about. I rationalized it away, right? So on that day one, I'm slowing down and I'm realizing. Wait a minute. What, what was that? That I heard, right?
What? What did I hear that my boyfriend at the time had done? Like how does that feel? That feels weird to me. Like that kind of makes me anxious. Hmm. And day two was listening inward. What do I need right now? So maybe. I needed just some time to think about that day three. Maybe I wanted to write it out and journal it, like what is this that I've heard?
Like this is not the type of behavior that I've seen with my own eyes, but, Hmm, like that would be a good idea to find out more about it. Let's ask around like, what really happened and why don't I ask this person? Like, I heard this. Is this true? And just see what they say and notice their body language.
How do they seem? I would suggest that, and maybe I wanna talk it out with a friend. Like, Hey, I heard this, this thing that happened and I don't know if it's true and I kind of feel weird about it and makes me anxious. Mind you, talk with a safe person, somebody you know that you can disclose something to and they won't judge you or tell anybody else.
Right. So this is disclosing to a safe friend that makes your nervous system calm down when you talk with them, right? They don't make you feel more anxious or weird or whatever. So that's what I would say about that. So grab a journal or a notes app and write just your stream of consciousness for five minutes.
You know what's coming up. You don't have to make it pretty or make it make sense or whatever. Just start. Writing, writing, writing out about your, what your intuition might be telling you about. Don't edit it. Just let your thoughts come through and flow. And when you're done, set the timer for five minutes.
Look back and see if any patterns or thoughts emerge from that. And, um, just take a minute. Remember, slow down, pause, listen inward and see what you're noticing. What are you noticing? Hmm. Pay attention to that. I. I will see you on day four. Thanks for being a fan of the Aware and Prepared Podcast. Show it some love by leaving a review and don't forget to hit follow so you can catch future episodes.
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