Hyper-independence can feel like strength, but in this episode, you’ll learn why it’s often a trauma response, and how to stop carrying everything alone. If you’ve been doing everything yourself, holding the invisible emotional load, or struggling to ask for help without guilt, this episode will help you understand the deeper truth behind why you cope this way… and what it’s really costing you.

Most women think they’re “just independent,” but beneath the surface is a nervous system conditioned to survive without support.
You’ll learn how this pattern forms, why it shows up in your relationships, and how to begin letting yourself receive without collapsing into fear, shame, or self-judgment.

By the end, you’ll feel clearer, softer, and more supported, even if nothing in your external world has changed yet.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why hyper-independence is a trauma response, not a personality trait
• The hidden emotional cost of carrying everything alone
• How your nervous system blocks you from asking for help
• Signs you’re living in “survival strength” instead of true strength
• How to open your body to receiving support (without feeling weak)

Mentioned in this episode:

• The real reason sensitive women struggle to ask for help
• The somatic cues of emotional overload and burnout
• A simple grounding practice to help your body feel safe enough to receive

Related Episode: Episode 22: Anxiety or Intuition? How to Tell the Difference

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If this episode helped you name a pattern you’re ready to release, you can learn more about my Reiki, Tarot, and 1:1 coaching work on my website: www.carinabull.com.au

You’ll find clear, gentle explanations of each offering, what’s involved, and how to book when it feels right for you. There’s no rush, just information and support if you’re standing at an edge and want to understand your options.

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Mountaineer – Juciest
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Feeling torn between anxiety and intuition can make you feel confused, overwhelmed, and disconnected from your own inner truth. But in this episode, you’ll learn how to recognise the difference, so you can finally trust what your body already knows.

Most women weren’t taught how intuition really works, and many grew up doubting their own senses. If you’ve ever felt something was off but talked yourself out of it, this conversation will help you understand why… and how to come home to your inner knowing again.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How to tell the difference between fear, trauma-noise, and real intuition
• Why your first three seconds hold your clearest truth
• How The Moon Reversed (a tarot card) mirrors distortion, confusion, and self-doubt
• Why an overwhelmed nervous system blocks intuitive clarity
• The somatic signals your body gives when intuition is speaking
• How to rebuild self-trust after years of doubting yourself

This is the episode for you if you're tired of feeling confused or overwhelmed, and you're finally ready to trust your own inner compass.

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Moon Reversed and intuition clouding
• The three-second intuition rule
• Trauma patterns that mimic intuition
• Somatic cues for truth vs fear

Related episode: Episode 21: Why You Can’t Hear Your Intuition (And How to Fix It)

This companion episode helps you understand how intuition speaks… while today's episode shows what blocks or distorts it.

If this episode resonated… If something in this episode landed in your body, let yourself follow that pull. You can support Soul Medicine by following the podcast or by sharing this episode with someone who struggles to trust themselves.
Every follow helps this work reach the women who are quietly searching for it.

Want to explore this work further?

If this episode helped you name a pattern you’re ready to release, you can learn more about my Reiki, Tarot, and 1:1 coaching work on my website: www.carinabull.com.au

You’ll find clear, gentle explanations of each offering, what’s involved, and how to book when it feels right for you. There’s no rush, just information and support if you’re standing at an edge and want to understand your options.

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If this episode spoke to you, please follow the podcast so you don’t miss what’s coming next, and consider sharing it with someone who may need this medicine right now. One shared truth can interrupt a lifetime of patterning.

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Mountaineer – Juciest
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Feeling disconnected from your intuition? This episode explains why your intuitive voice isn’t gone. It is being drowned out by overwhelm, anxiety and internal noise. If you have been wondering whether you are intuitive at all, or why your guidance feels quiet or inconsistent, this episode brings the clarity and truth you have been craving. Grab your Free Ground and Protect Guided Meditation!

By the end of this episode, you will understand:
• How to tell the difference between intuition and anxiety
• How to recognise intuitive signs through your body
• How nervous system overwhelm blocks intuitive clarity
• Why overthinking causes intuitive misfires
• How to build self-trust and stop second-guessing yourself
• A step-by-step somatic practice to hear your intuition clearly

Mentioned in this episode:
• Free Ground and Protect Guided Meditation. A free guided practice to help you clear energetic static, regulate your system and create the internal quiet your intuition needs. Link in the show notes.
• The four clairs and how to recognise your intuitive language
• Somatic cues that arise before the mind interferes

Related episode:Episode 17: Feeling Disconnected? Daily Practices to Receive Guidance

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