Anxiety vs. Intuition: Understanding the Key Differences and How to Manage Them
CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf
Dr. Caroline Leaf
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Description: Ever wonder if that gut feeling is fear or intuition? In this episode, I break down how to tell the difference—and how to calm anxiety so you can hear your inner wisdom clearly.
You’ll learn:
1. The science behind anxiety and intuition
2. Why anxiety stems from fear, past experiences, and “what-if” thinking
3. How intuition is actually a signal from your nonconscious mind rooted in wisdom
4. Key ways to distinguish between a fearful spiral and an intuitive nudge
5. Quick, practical tools to calm anxiety and tune into your inner guidance
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| 0:26.4 | 20th of April. |
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| 0:28.7 | Excludes Zazra Express. Hello and welcome to the Dr. Leaf Show. |
| 0:46.3 | Today I'm going to be talking about the difference between anxiety versus intuition. |
| 0:51.4 | Very helpful information. |
| 0:53.1 | But before we begin, I want to tell you about my new |
| 0:55.7 | project coming up on the 5th of August, which is my latest book. This is book number 19. And it's |
| 1:01.2 | called Help in a Hurry, written for myself mainly. No, it's for everyone. It's to help us catch those |
| 1:07.1 | moments where we just feel totally overwhelmed by life. And we just feel like everything's going crazy. And if we don't catch those moments where we just feel totally overwhelmed by life and we just feel like everything's |
| 1:11.6 | going crazy and if we don't catch those moments, they accumulate and become habits and then |
| 1:17.4 | they become patterns in our life and then we wonder why are we feeling awful because we've |
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