Trusting Your Intuition When Logic Says No
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Weekly Dose of Work Recovery Vol. 6.24.26
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein
A note from me about the trip my calendar told me not to take 😂
I almost didn't go.
I had a week already stacked with amazing client work, my kiddos' baseball game on the schedule, and Josh, my hubs and the coach, who'd be solo-parenting and baseball managing if I left. When I thought about the logistics, it felt like it wouldn't work. Four days in San Diego for an advanced hypnobreathwork certification with Mastry Experience, right in the middle of a season where I already felt stretched…
In fact, before making the decision my logic kept asking the same question: why now?
I didn't have a clean answer. I couldn't point to a precise why or a plan for how it would connect the dots in my business. What I had was a quieter, more persistent sense that I needed to be there. So I booked it.
The pull you can't justify with the mind alone
If you're the kind of person who builds a case before you make a move, you know this tension. You want a reason. You want to know the ROI, the strategic fit, see and feel real proof that the time and money will pay off in some measurable way. That's the corporate way of working.
And then something comes along that you want without being able to explain why. It doesn't fit the plan. It might even compete or feel like a wild departure from the plan.
The part of you that has spent years earning trust by being the responsible one (yep, me too!) looks at it and says, not now, maybe later, when things settle down.
Things rarely settle down. That's the trap. And we're blocking our own intuition and possibility when that's the only consideration.
The Unschool: Why "wait until it makes sense" keeps failing us
Traditional, linear, even corporate ingrained advice is to be disciplined. Protect your time. Profit first. For a lot of decisions, that's sound.
Where it breaks down is that it only measures what you can already see.
A spreadsheet can weigh costs against known returns. It has no column for the thing your nervous system needs before your creative mind can come online.
When I felt called to that certification, my body was tracking something my logic hadn't named yet: I was running low on the exact resource I use to help other people recover and clear their own career chaos, and I needed to reset it in a room where I was the student instead of the guide.
The sigh my body has felt since being there and led through my own healing experience is everything I needed and so much more.
Logic would have told me to stay home. Logic would have been wrong.
Treating intuition as data, not a feeling to override
Here's the shift I keep coming back to: Intuition isn't the opposite of good judgment. It's a form of information that arrives faster than reasoning and uses a different language.
The pull toward something you can't yet justify is often your system pointing at a need before you've built the case for it. It's advanced pattern recognition and it is to be trusted even when it doesn't make logical sense.
That doesn't mean every impulse deserves a hell yes. It means a persistent, somatic pull is worth evaluating rather than dismissing.
The goal is to get curious about what the pull knows that your logic hasn't caught up to.
My Takeaway to Share
Your logic is good at protecting what you've already built. Your intuition is often better at noticing what you truly need next. The work is learning to give the second one a seat at the table before you've finished building the case for it.
I came home from San Diego more certain and grounded than I've felt in a long time, and it became so clear why I went after the fact. Clarity came after the decision, not before it.
Sometimes that's the order just what we actually need arrives in.
If there's a pull you've been talking yourself out of, I'd just say this: look at it honestly before your logic worries get the final word.
Sincerely,
Bree
P.S. The hardest part of trusting intuition is hearing it in the first place, especially when your logic is talking over it. Breathwork is the most direct way I know to turn the volume down on the mental chatter and reconnect with my most authentic inner truth. If you want to experience that, you can book a session with me here: Book an Intuition + Energy Reset Breathwork
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This week's did you know…
Did you know there's a quieter cousin to burnout
And psychologist Adam Grant calls it "boreout"
Where burnout leaves you overloaded and overwhelmed, boreout leaves you underwhelmed, drained by work that feels disconnected from anything that matters to you. Grant points to a few common drivers: doing one task for too long, having no room to grow, losing sight of why your work is meaningful, and missing real social connection.
HBU: Would you rather be bored or burned out?
Source: ‘Boreout’ is the new burnout, CNBC
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