Sacred Motherhood: Embodying intuition

Key Takeaways:

• Matrescence enhances intuition, empathy, and attunement.
• Intuition is part of human wiring, often suppressed by rational thought and cultural conditioning.
• Differentiating intuition from anxiety can be challenging, especially postpartum.
• Intuition manifests as deep knowing, bodily sensations, emotions, or imagery.
• Breathwork, movement, co-regulation, and meditation help access intuition.
• Trust your instincts about sleep, feeding, and responding to babies’ needs.
• Closing message: intuition is a birthright, stay in your truth.

Experiential exercises:

• Journaling 

  • Write about two moments when you had an intuitive knowing.
  • Reflect on where in your body the information came from.
  • Compare this with a moment of anxiety or fear—how did the sensations differ?

• Daily Practice for Strengthening Intuition:

  • Allow body-based decision-making (e.g., ordering a drink based on bodily cues rather than logic).
  • Noticing small bodily impulses (e.g., the urge to rest, eat certain foods, be in nature) and honoring them.