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I'm your host, Relationship Coach Stephanie Rigg,

and I'm really glad you're here.

Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of On Attachment. In today's episode, we are talking

all about anxiety and intuition and how to tell the difference between

these two experiences, which for a lot of people, a lot of the time can feel very similar,

or at least when we don't have clarity around what the different feeling tone is associated

with intuition on the one hand and anxiety on the other. It's really easy for the lines to feel really blurred and for

you to not really have clarity around if you're getting all this information from your body

that feels alarming and that is telling you to do something that's maybe warning you about

something bad that might happen or giving you, you know, a hunch or a gut feel about a

situation, waiting through all of that information that your body is feeding up to you

and figuring out how much of this is, quote unquote, just my anxiety and how much of this is

actual information that I need to act on. And if you are someone with insecure attachment patterns,

particularly anxious attachment and disorganized attachment, you probably experience a lot of

hypervigilance, a lot of really pronounced acute sensitivity to environments to other people's

feeling states, any sort of subtle shift in the energy, the mood,

the temperature, all of that is likely to have your ears pricking up and it's something that

you really are very tapped into and that you notice and that can often be the trigger for an

anxiety spiral. That can be what kicks

off one of your cycles, and particularly in a relationship, it can be the starting point of one

of those negative conflict cycles. If you perceive that something's wrong and then you start

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