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044 - When the Right Decision Feels Like a Mistake: Understanding Your Nervous System's Fear Response
Heal and Grow with Creativity
Have you ever made a decision that felt completely right — and then immediately felt awful about it? You're not broken. You're not impulsive. And you definitely didn't make a mistake.
In this episode, creativity coach Renata unpacks why good decisions so often feel bad — especially for sensitive, intuitive, and neurodivergent women of color. Drawing from her own experience of a stressful move, she explores three reasons this happens: the deep-rooted fear of trusting yourself, the nervous system's resistance to change even when it's good for you, and the way intuitive decision-making gets mislabeled as impulsivity.
If you've ever second-guessed a choice that felt right in your bones, this one's for you.
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