“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be yourself.” –Alan Alda

I am often asked how I know the things I know.  For most of my life, I would come up with explanations to validate how I came to understand certain things whether it be with parenting or for my own personal experiences.  I would often be challenged because I didn’t necessarily have a credible source for my knowledge.  Growing up in a left brained world has always been a challenge for me because it has caused me to question much of who I am and what I know.  Unfortunately, there isn’t a text book for explaining what intuition is or how it shows up for each individual person, it just is and its high time we step into our truest self and trust the built in mechanism we each have that can lead to our greatest source of guidance in this experience we call life.

So how have I come to trust what I know and how can you develop the inner knowing for yourself? 

My greatest confidence for trusting my intuition has been in the upbringing of my children.  In fact, I recently signed a contract with a publisher for a book I am co-authoring titled- Raising Intuitive Children.  Where does my knowledge for this information come from?  You guessed it, my intuition.  As I apply these intuitive nudges with how I parent my children; the evidence of what I receive reveals itself.

Each of my children has a different intuitive style for how they interact with the world around them.  I have largely taken my cues for how to parent each of them based on what I know about their personalities and style; and what I intuit their needs to be.  I also see much of my own internal knowing reflected back at me through the way my children behave, react to things, and express their emotions.  While taking a class for my parent coach certification, I learned a great deal about the buttons our children push as a result of our own parenting inheritance.  It was a great education; because I began to see myself in the actions of my children and would come to learn that each button was an internal intuitive nudge either to change a particular parenting habit or strengthen a characteristic I may not have been aware was one of my own to develop.

Stay tuned for how our intuition can be cultivated to meet the needs of each of our children.

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