I'm going to start trusting my intuition over others' claims for the first time in my life

[belenen]

icon: "nascent (a painting by Michael Whelan of a person with long flowing hair and large breasts sitting naked and cross-legged inside a green egg, which is being held against the sky by giant translucent blue hands with pointy nails)"So today, at age 33, I realized I have never even tried trusting my intuition. After I realize something is a

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[slinkslowdown]

I think this is a great change and I hope you don't have much trouble in changing your habits--I know it can be hard.

I was going to say I never get intuitive feelings about people, but then I realized I do, when I do sex work. There's men I just plain stop communicating with because they make me feel unsafe--and that's only through e-mail communication. If e-mails make me feel unsafe, there's no way I'm going to subject myself to their physical presence.

My intuition also saved my mother's life about ten years ago.

I was out for dinner with friends after the last day of the school year. We were at a pizza place literally across from my apartment--I could see our balcony from the table we were eating at.

Out of nowhere, I had this intense feeling that I had to get home. I excused myself and bolted across the street and upstairs to our apartment. I found Mom screaming on the bathroom floor and called 911.

She'd had a brain aneurysm start to rupture.

She was taken to the local hospital, then air-lifted to Vancouver for surgery. She spent the entire Summer at Vancouver General Hospital due to complications, and I stayed at a family friend's place here in Nanaimo during that time.

Miraculously, she's recovered almost completely--certainly beyond what one would expect from what happened to her. Mom has some physical weakness [mostly unable to carry much weight] and has some memory problems, but I'd still call that a 9/10 recovery.

[jeune_fleur]

My god that must have been really hard for both of you! It was definitely a good thing you trusted your intuition *sighs*.

[slinkslowdown]

Mom and I were both kind of used to dealing with medical emergencies. I grew up with a father who had poorly-controlled epilepsy and I had to know how to call 911/etc. since I can remember.

It was my first time ever having to do that for Mom, though.

[belenen]

wow, I am so glad that you paid attention to that intuitive sense! Good job you! That is beautiful and amazing <3