Gut Feeling
She knew the answers. She just didn't trust herself to give them.
This girl was twelve.
Intelligent, diligent, capable.
But completely blocked.
Before exams, when needing to make decisions, in moments that required her own judgement, she froze.
One example her parents mentioned: she constantly asked her teacher for answers she already knew.
Her confidence and intuition seemed to be switched off. She had stopped trusting herself and was no longer able to hear the signals her body was sending her.
With her eyes closed, I guided her to visualize her gut feeling—her “second brain,” which would usually support her in making intuitive decisions.
Nothing abstract. Just whatever her imagination would come up with.
She found it. Described it. Gave her gut feeling a face and a name.
Mellisa.
Mellisa was pink, cheerful, confident. She had strong opinions. And she had things to say.
Together they worked through what had been blocking her. They found things like nervousness, the fear of being wrong, the habit of looking outward for answers that were already inside her.
After months of second-guessing answers and decisions, the connection to that inner voice had gone quiet.
Giving her gut feeling a face, a name, and a voice was the key.
From that moment onwards, whenever she had to make a decision, she could imagine Mellisa confidently guiding her and follow that response.
She had reactivated her connection to her intuition, which integrates unconscious processes, past experiences, and information continuously gathered through the sensory system.
Mellisa wasn’t a character I invented for her. She had always been there.
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