You've felt it before, haven't you?
That subtle pull toward—or away from—something. A knowing in your body that arrives before your mind can explain it. The sense that you should call that friend, take that different route home, say no to that opportunity even though it looks perfect on paper.
And then what happens?
You second-guess yourself. You talk yourself out of it. You decide you're being irrational, overly sensitive, probably wrong. You override that inner voice with logic, with what you "should" do, with what makes sense to everyone else.
But here's what I want you to consider: what if that voice—that felt sense, that bodily knowing—is not only real, but the most reliable guidance system you have?
What if your intuition isn't something mystical or rare or reserved for especially gifted people, but your birthright? A capacity that's been there all along, waiting for you to trust it again?
The Intuition You've Been Ignoring
Let's start here: you're already intuitive. You always have been.
Every time you walk into a room and immediately sense the tension no one is naming. Every time you know your child is struggling before they say a word. Every time you feel uneasy about someone even though they seem perfectly nice. Every time your body contracts or expands in response to a choice you're considering.
That's intuition.
It's not dramatic. It's not always clear or loud. Often, it's just a whisper. A flutter in your belly. A tightness in your chest. A sudden expansiveness. A feeling you can't quite articulate but absolutely recognize.
The problem isn't that you don't have intuition. It's that you've been taught not to trust it.
You've been taught that feelings aren't facts. That logic is superior to sensing. That your body's wisdom is less valid than external expertise. That if you can't explain or prove something, it probably isn't real.
And so you've learned to override yourself. To dismiss your knowing. To seek validation outside yourself rather than trusting what's already arising within.
But here's the truth your body has been trying to tell you: your intuition is not separate from reality. It's perceiving information your conscious mind hasn't caught up to yet. It's reading subtle cues, patterns, energies that your rational brain doesn't have language for.
Your intuition is real. What you're feeling is real.
And it's time to start trusting it again.
When Everything Becomes More Intense
Maybe you've noticed that things feel different lately. Your emotions are bigger. Your reactions are sharper. Your tolerance for things that never quite worked for you has evaporated. Things you used to be able to push through or ignore are suddenly impossible to bypass.
This isn't a malfunction. This is awakening.
Sometimes life—through transitions, losses, shifts, or simply the accumulated weight of living inauthentically—turns up the volume on everything. Your nervous system becomes more sensitive, more attuned, more permeable.
The veil gets thinner. The boundaries between you and the world around you become more porous. You start picking up on things you didn't notice before—other people's emotions, energies in spaces, your body's subtle signals, the whispers of your own soul.
Some women describe it as feeling raw, undefended. Others say it's like all their filters disappeared. Many feel suddenly, uncomfortably psychic—knowing things they shouldn't know, sensing things they can't explain.
This can be overwhelming, especially if you don't have a framework for understanding it. But what if this heightened sensitivity isn't something to fear or suppress? What if it's actually your system coming back online, reconnecting you to a way of knowing that's been dormant?
What if this moment is trying to give you back your intuition—the intuition you learned to ignore, the intuition you were taught to distrust, the intuition that knows exactly what you need and who you're becoming?
Learning to Listen Again
So how do you start trusting your intuition? How do you distinguish between genuine inner knowing and anxiety, fear, old conditioning, or wishful thinking?
It starts with learning the language of your own body.
Your body speaks in sensations, not thoughts. Intuition isn't usually verbal. It's a feeling in your gut, a warmth in your chest, a sense of lightness or heaviness. It's the way your shoulders drop when something is right, or how your jaw tightens when something is off.
Pay attention to these sensations. Notice what expansion feels like in your body. Notice what contraction feels like. Notice the difference between the tight, anxious feeling of fear and the clear, calm "no" of your intuition. Notice the difference between the scattered energy of wanting something to be true and the grounded certainty of knowing.
Start small. You don't have to make huge life decisions based on intuition right away. Begin with low-stakes choices. Which route should I take today? What does my body want to eat? Should I respond to this text now or wait? Notice what you sense, act on it, and observe what happens.
Ask your body directly. When you're facing a decision, get quiet, close your eyes, and bring the option into your awareness. Notice what happens in your body. Does it relax or tense? Do you feel more open or more closed? Does your breathing deepen or become shallow? Your body will tell you what it knows.
Journal the moments you were right. Start documenting the times your intuition spoke and you listened—and it turned out to be accurate. This isn't about being psychic or proving anything. It's about building trust with yourself. The more evidence you gather that your inner knowing is reliable, the easier it becomes to follow it.
Distinguish between fear and intuition. Fear is usually loud, urgent, and chaotic. It comes with stories and catastrophizing. Intuition is quieter, steadier, and strangely calm. It doesn't argue or convince. It just knows. Learn to recognize the difference.
Create space for stillness. Intuition can't be heard over the noise of constant doing, consuming, processing, performing. You need quiet. You need slowness. You need time in nature, time alone, time without screens or demands or other people's voices filling your head. Give your intuition room to speak.
When You Need Support for the Journey: Enlisting an intuitive to help you enhance your own intuitive-ness
Here's the paradox: learning to trust your own intuition often requires guidance from someone who can help you distinguish your authentic voice from all the other voices that have been running your life.
This is where the right support becomes invaluable.
At Harmonious Return, this is exactly the kind of work I specialize in—helping women reconnect with their intuitive knowing, their body's wisdom, and the deeper guidance available to them.
Intuitive Readings: Receiving Clarity When You're Lost
Sometimes you're so deep in the confusion, so overwhelmed by the noise in your own head, that you can't hear your intuition clearly. Or you're hearing it, but you don't trust it yet. You need someone to help you see what's really there.
This is what intuitive readings offer. I create a space where the wisdom that's trying to reach you—whether from your own higher knowing, from the plant world, from ancestral guides, or from your body itself—can come through clearly.
In a session, I act as a mirror and a translator. I tune into what's present for you energetically, what wants attention, what's ready to shift. I listen to what the plants have to say about your specific journey. And I help you hear what you already know but haven't been able to access on your own.
Often, clients tell me that the reading confirmed something they'd been sensing but were afraid to trust. Or it illuminated a pattern they couldn't see from inside it. Or it offered them permission to honor what they'd been feeling all along.
This isn't about me having answers you don't have. It's about creating a container where your own knowing can emerge, witnessed and validated.
Custom Formulations for Your Unique Journey
Once we've identified which herbs want to work with you, I handcraft personalized formulations—teas, tinctures, or other preparations—designed specifically for your body and your journey.
These aren't generic blends. They're medicine made with your name on it, literally. Blended with intention, infused with the awareness of what you're navigating, calibrated to support not just your symptoms but your transformation.
One of my clients came to me feeling completely unmoored. She'd always been the capable one, the one with answers, but suddenly she felt lost, unsure, like the ground had disappeared beneath her. In her reading, several plants came through strongly—mugwort for intuitive trust, milky oats for nervous system restoration, and rose for heart opening and self-compassion.
I created a custom tea blend for her, and she began drinking it daily as a ritual—a moment each morning to sit, to breathe, to come back to herself. Within weeks, she told me she was dreaming again (something she'd stopped doing for years), making decisions with more ease, and most importantly, trusting herself in a way she hadn't in a very long time.
The herbs didn't give her intuition. They supported the conditions that allowed her intuition to re-emerge.
Your Intuition Isn't the Problem—The Doubt Is
Here's what I really want you to understand: the issue isn't that your intuition is unreliable. It's
Taylor Short, of Harmonious Return is a Perimenopause Herbalist, Writer & Earth Intuitive. She’s passionate about starting a natural perimenopause revolution and tap into the wisdom of the earth and your body’s natural healing abilities so you can step out of barely hanging on… to fully blossoming and thriving in your full, authentically balanced self!