Is This My Intuition… or Am I Just Spiralling?

(How to tell intuition vs. anxiety)

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One of the questions people ask me most when they start paying attention to intuition is this:

“How do I know if it’s intuition… or if I’m just spiralling?”

Because sometimes the experience can feel confusing.

A feeling appears, your body reacts.
Your mind immediately starts trying to work out what it means.

Suddenly you're running through possibilities.

What if this is a sign?
What if I'm imagining it?
What if I'm about to make the wrong decision?

And the mind can get loud very quickly.

In my experience, the difference often comes down to pace.

Anxiety moves fast.

You can feel it physically when it happens.
Your chest tightens slightly, your thoughts start stacking on top of each other.

The whole system feels like it's rushing toward an answer.

Intuition behaves very differently.

It tends to arrive more gently (even if it is firm).

Sometimes it feels like a soft drop in the body. Your shoulders relax a little - some even sense it as a support guidance from coming behind their shoulder.
Your breathing deepens. There is an openness in the body.

You might notice a simple sense of direction before your mind has time to analyse it.

It may not come as a dramatic voice, but a quiet feeling that something inside you already knows which way feels right. That deeper knowing.

And then, a few seconds later, the mind arrives to question everything.

When people start paying attention to this difference, something interesting happens.

They realise their intuition has probably been speaking to them for years. They’ve just learned to doubt it faster than they could recognise it.

Over time, the work becomes less about trying to get intuitive messages and more about learning to trust the signals already moving through your body and awareness.

And when that trust grows, decisions begin to feel very different.

Less like guessing and more like listening.

Once people begin recognising the difference between anxiety and intuition, a second question usually appears.

Why does intuition feel easy to hear sometimes… and almost impossible at other times?

That usually has less to do with intuition itself and more to do with the state your nervous system is in.

I wrote more about that here:
Why Being Chill Makes Intuition Way Easier to Hear

If this sparked something for you, I’d love to support you

People usually begin exploring intuition with me in a few different ways:

꩜ Soul Essence Reading
Discover how your intuition already speaks to you. This reading explores your soul’s energetic blueprint and helps you recognise your strongest intuitive language so you can start working with it instead of second guessing it.
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꩜ Intuition Course (coming soon)
A practical course for learning how intuition actually shows up in your body and awareness. You’ll learn to recognise your signals, understand the difference between anxiety and guidance, and begin building real trust in your inner knowing.
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꩜ Akashic Practitioner Training
An in-depth training for those who feel called to work with the Akashic Records professionally or to deepen their intuitive capacity in a structured, ethical way.
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꩜ Inner Healing & Integration Sessions
Support for the deeper patterns that can make trusting yourself difficult. These sessions help soften overthinking loops, emotional and overthinking protective patterns so your intuition has more space to come through.
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