Women’s Intuition | Learning to Trust Yourself Again
What Is Intuition?
"An ability to know something immediately, based on feeling rather than proof."
You’ll have heard it called trusting your gut, listening to your inner voice, just knowing.
And most of the time, it’s really worth listening to.
There are exceptions, of course. If your “gut feeling” is pulling you towards something risky or harmful, that’s a moment to pause and get curious about what’s really driving it. But in everyday life — decisions, relationships, boundaries, direction — intuition can be your most reliable guide.
The frustrating part is how many women ignore it.
"Women’s intuition”?
Men and women tend to process the world differently. It’s reflected in research around brain structure, hormones, stress responses, and social conditioning. On average, women pick up on patterns, tone, shifts in energy, and emotional undercurrents quickly.
And yes — plenty of men are deeply intuitive, and plenty of women are brilliantly logical. Humans are beautifully complex.
So why the label?
Because intuition has been treated like it’s a bit airy fairy - a bit whoo.
Something you can drop into a conversation, but not something you’d bring into a serious decision without being laughed out the room.
In a corporate setting, try saying “I’ve got a bad feeling about this,” and watch how fast people reach for a spreadsheet.
And yet you don’t have to look far to find people who credit their success to instinct as much as analysis.
Richard Branson once said he relies far more on gut instinct than piles of statistics. He’s done alright for himself, hasn’t he? 😉
We put our emotions aside - conform to society - think logically.
Many women have spent years being told, subtly or directly, that they’re:
too emotional
too sensitive
overthinking
dramatic
inconsistent
So what do we do?
We start second-guessing.
We talk ourselves out of what we felt in the first place.
We choose the “sensible” option even when our whole body is saying no.
We swallow the truth to keep the peace.
Over time, that inner voice gets quieter. But it doesn’t disappear, it just stops getting listened to.
And that can show up in so many ways — burnout, resentment, anxiety, feeling flat, feeling lost, feeling like you’re living a life that looks fine from the outside but doesn’t feel like yours on the inside.
Intuition is your superpower.
I’m sure you’ll have your own examples:
Think about times you...
knew how someone would react before they even spoke
felt uneasy around a person for “no reason” (until there was a reason)
had a quiet certainty about something others didn’t understand
looked at an opportunity and felt “not for me” even though it looked perfect on paper
You know when this happens right?
Let’s do a wee check-in
Take a breath and be honest with yourself.
When was the last time you fully listened to your intuition?
Have you stopped trusting it?
Do you argue with it?
Does your need for approval silence it?
Do you default to what’s acceptable rather than what’s true for you?
You can rebuild your connection to your inner knowing.
It takes practice — especially if you’ve spent years people-pleasing, keeping the peace, doing the “right thing”, and leaving yourself out of the equation.
What changed for me
There was a time when I considered other people’s feelings more important than my own mental, physical, and emotional health.
I said yes when I meant no.
I ignored my own signals.
I stayed quiet when I needed to speak up.
Not anymore.
That shift won’t suit everyone. And that's ok.
Because listening to my intuition has brought me back to myself, again and again.
Sometimes it takes a while to understand why I’m being nudged towards something.
Sometimes it’s a bit uncomfortable.
Sometimes it scared the poop out of me.
But it’s also where life opens up.
It’s where the real magic is — the freedom, the confidence, the joy that actually feels like joy.
So what’s your intuition telling you right now?
And more importantly… are you listening?
