Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women

(#78) Trusting Your Inner Wisdom: Somatic Tools to Strengthen Intuition & Quiet Fear

• Rae The Somatic Coach • Episode 78

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How do you tell the difference between fear and intuition? In this episode, we dive into how to listen to your inner wisdom—the voice within that knows—and how to build a deeper sense of self-trust, compassion, and embodied clarity.

This is a continuation of last week’s conversation on wholeness, and we’re expanding the topic by exploring the somatic and creative tools that help you turn down the noise of fear and turn up the volume of your intuition.

You’ll learn:
🌱 What inner wisdom actually feels like in the body
🌱 How fear and the inner critic try to override your intuitive voice
🌱 Somatic practices to reconnect with your intuition: breathwork, movement, inner child work, and sensation tracking
🌱 Creative practices like intuitive writing, morning pages, and art to access your inner truth
🌱 Reflection questions to guide your journey

This episode is your reminder that you don’t have to force your way into burnout—your body, breath, and creative expression can guide you home.

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Welcome to Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women, a podcast for the sensitive, soulful, high-achieving woman ready to come home to herself. I'm your host, rae. I'm a somatic coach and breathwork facilitator here to guide you back to your body, your truth and your power. Each week we'll explore nervous system healing, somatics, breathwork, embodied living, creativity, self-expression and soul-led personal growth. If you are ready to soften the pressure, release perfectionism and live with more presence, more pleasure and more purpose, you're in the right place. Let's take a deep breath and let's dive in. Welcome back to the podcast. If you are new here, I'm Rae. I'm a somatic coach and breathwork facilitator. And if you aren't new here, welcome back. I'm so glad that you're tuning in for today's episode. So front desk items, before we dive in, there is an Instagram live series. I mentioned it in last week's episode that I am hosting. It is just for the month of May. It's every Tuesday. If you can't tune in live, you can catch the replay and on that series I'm sharing little tidbits and concepts and ideas from the Return to Soul Retreat, which is coming up in October. So if you have any questions about the retreat or about the Instagram Lives, you can head over to Instagram, follow me there and you can check out the show notes for links about the retreat.

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So let's dive into today's episode. So I wanted to build on this idea of listening to your inner wisdom and I had done an Instagram live on this a few weeks ago and I realized that I have more to say on the topic. So here we are and I think it builds nicely on last week's episode really listening to your inner wisdom and allowing that to be a part of building that self-trust, building that self-compassion and that self-knowledge that we also talked about in last week's podcast episode. So your inner wisdom is like this voice that has a knowing and it is inside, and sometimes it is super loud and other times it's super quiet and it feels like out of reach. And I've experienced both and we've definitely all had this experience before where you just knew something whether it was a decision or maybe it was that something was or wasn't going to happen. It's like that voice that you hear inside that is undeniable, it is very clear. There is no, maybe it is like a yes or a no, and it's very clear and loud and easy to understand once you give yourself the time and space to listen. And so, if you want to turn up the volume of that inner wisdom, that inner voice, and you also want to turn down the volume of the inner critic or fear. I definitely can relate to both of them and I want to share a few ways that you can do either. So one that's like connecting you more to your intuition, and the other that is turning down that volume of the inner critic. That can be just as loud.

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So the first is really connecting with your breath. So that could look like breath work. That could look like pausing and taking three deep breaths. That can look like doing an integrative session, a meditative session, something that's longer, something that's shorter. It doesn't have to take up, you know, a full hour when you connect with your breath. It can be something quick and intentional, even something like three minutes, even something like three minutes.

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Giving yourself the time and space to connect with your breath and be in an experience of stillness will really allow that inner wisdom to the volume to increase, because you're really quieting the noise there. There's so much noise that we experience. We're in a consuming world, whether it's podcasts or TV or social media or scrolling TikTok, you know. Whatever it might be, there's a lot that we're being exposed to and a lot of information that's coming in, and that information can muffle the sound of like your guide and what your inner voice sounds like. And so having a practice with your breath really can return you back to that place of being grounded, being in your power in your own energy, protecting your energy, cleansing your energy. There's so many different benefits of breath work, but those are just a few. There's so many different benefits of breathwork, but those are just a few.

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The second that I've been really loving recently and something that I've definitely been incorporating in my work over the years but I plan to incorporate it a bit more in the future is intuitive writing. I love and I've started to write even more having a writing practice of some sort. So this is also called different things. It can be called creative writing. Maybe you've heard of morning pages before. Free writing, journaling, really allowing yourself the time and space to express stream of consciousness, will really allow that inner critic to take a back seat. And what's really cool is, once you get into this practice of stream of consciousness, writing the sound of your intuition and the sound of your inner wisdom the volume of that goes way up and the volume of your inner wisdom. The volume of that goes way up and the volume of your inner critic goes way down.

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And in those moments when the inner critic does arise, this is tool number three is to meet the arising. So meet the fear, meet the inner critic, meet the voice, meet yourself with what is arising in your life experience. It's part of the human experience and instead of pushing it away or shutting it out or trying to make it wrong, really allow yourself to move through the fear, move through this experience of the inner critic in the body, somatically, so allowing your body to know that it's safe. You can do some sensation, association, inner child work, movement, breath, meeting the arising and allowing yourself, either independently or with support, to move through what's coming up for you with your own pacing, your own way, your own intuitive way of moving through something that's arising. So when you're allowing yourself to meet yourself in the fear and move through it in a way that feels good for you, that's also going to increase the sound of your intuition, because you're moving through an experience intuitively, you're connecting with yourself, you're meeting yourself exactly where you're at in that moment and that can look like meeting yourself in fear, anxiety, shame, doubt, grief, anything that might be arising for you and moving through it somatically in the body at your pace. Then the fourth part of this is allowing yourself to meet your wisdom, your inner wisdom as well. So giving yourself the ability to listen to that nudge, listen to that voice, listen to that intuitive hit and give it a place to go, give it a place to land. So one way that I love to do this is in the notes section of my phone. I have an organized notes section of my phone and I just have it categorized by you know different things that feel good to me. I added a new thing in there called wins, so it's like things that I'm celebrating.

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Just the other day I think this actually might've been yesterday or two days ago I woke up in the morning and I had a miscommunication happen with one of the people that I work with and I could have let this moment really like ruin my day. I could have really gotten stuck in it, got stuck in the fear, got stuck in what was coming up for me, feeling angry, feeling down, and I really allowed myself to move through it in a way that felt good for me. And then I also realized and this is how this section in my notes came that was titled wins I also realized it was like super early in the morning I want to say it was like 8.15 when this 12 o'clock noon when I realized this that there were so many incredible things that had already happened that day that I didn't even realize were happening. Like, my mindfulness was like so far gone out the window because I was so, uh, triggered from this experience. And then I realized, oh, there are actually a lot of wins that I had today already and it's only noon and this is like an incredible day and I'm like whoa, like how am I not celebrating these things that are also going on?

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So just having that awareness gave me even a little bit more safety. To meet the arising. I was like, okay, it's meeting the rising, meeting the rising, meet the arising. And then okay, now I actually have more access to see things differently, like maybe I would have gone through the whole day without even noticing what was going on. So, meet the wisdom as well, give it an outlet. I like to do this in the notes section of my phone, but you can do this. Any form of expression, any form of art, writing, poetry. I like to do it here on the podcast as well, just like really allowing my intuitive ideas and my intuitive voice to come through. But it can look, like, you know, different for everybody. So just giving yourself an outlet for your inner wisdom as well.

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And then, lastly, really allowing yourself the time to pause, so this kind of builds off of number one and number two, but really checking in with how much time you have with yourself to be still and just like be in stillness, and that will also allow those, that intuition and that sound of that inner wisdom to build. And I always say again, this doesn't have to be like a long experience. This could be something that you're like fitting in in your morning routine or in the middle of your day or your evening routine, but we are in a consuming world and it's moving very fast, and so giving yourself that time and space to pause, to breathe yourself, that time and space to pause to breathe, uh, one tool that I've been loving recently is something that one of my friends, uh, told me about. It's called screen zen and it's an app on your phone and you can basically give it all these different parameters, like you make the parameters, but it helps to limit, like, how much time you're on your phone, and for someone like me I'm an entrepreneur in business and the reality is like a lot of that is being on my phone, whether it's social media or on my emails or texting or in WhatsApp, or a lot of it is being on my phone. So this app has been so helpful for me. I absolutely love it so I highly recommend it. But it is just one example of like I was noticing that the amount of information I was consuming was muffling my channel, like my central channel, and I really wanted to stay true to myself and I really wanted to like be in my own energy and my own ideas and my own creativity, and so for me, that looked like having this little app on my phone that helps me um, you know, limit whatever I'm doing on my phone. So that's one, just one example, and so all of this I share with you, because that voice of your inner wisdom, your inner guide, is there, is accessible for all of us.

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A lot of the work that I do with my one-on-one clients and in my group sessions as well, is really connecting people with the sound of their inner wisdom. I believe that you know exactly what your body needs, exactly what your mind needs, exactly what your soul needs, and a lot of the times it's not about reinventing anything. It's really about remembering who you truly are and seeing past the illusion, seeing past the fear and allowing your inner wisdom, the voice of your inner wisdom, to come through. So some questions that I would love to leave you with is what does it feel like in my body to trust myself? When do I hear the sound of my intuition the loudest and when is it the most quiet? And what would I do if I deeply trusted myself? So I hope today's episode was supportive for you, really tuning in and hearing and listening to the sound of your inner wisdom. This is something that we will be doing on the retreat in October, the Return to Soul retreat. This is foundational for all the work that I do, but it's really bringing those three pieces together of that self-trust, that self-compassion, that self-knowledge and moving through an entire weekend of what that would look like. So I'm really excited to bring you this retreat.

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I hope that you enjoyed today's episode. If you want to check out any of those details, check out the show notes. If you have any questions, send me a DM and, yeah, I hope that you have an incredible rest of your day. I hope you have an incredible rest of your week and I will talk to you soon. Thank you for being here and tuning in to Somatic Healing for Wellness-Focused Women podcast.

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