Trusting Your Gut - Understanding Intuition After a Toxic Relationship - How do we learn to trust our intuition? We all are born with a certain amount of intuition. The problem is, from a very young age we are often told to ignore our feelings or that our feelings are just wrong. This is true for nearly everyone, but especially for people who were raised in toxic households and/or who have spent a long time in other toxic relationships.

Everyone has a natural ability to know if something is not right in any given situation. The problem is, over time you may have pushed down those feelings as wrong or even crazy.

If you’re not used to listening to your intuition, learning to tune into it will require time and patience.

At first, you may be unsure of exactly how to access it to sort of "hear" or "feel" it, and using your intuition is very much like using your physical muscles. You need to use it regularly in order for it to be in the shape you want.

So how do you get to know your intuition better?

First of all, start to watch out for hunches, feelings, ideas that crop up. Pay attention to the voice that accompanies it.

Is it gentle, positive, supportive? If it’s aggressive, domineering, or using other tactics it’s more likely to be something else maybe leftover remnants of the narcissist in your life rolling around in your head. If you’re getting a feeling of warning, is it a loud and threatening one (like the narcissist's voice) or an insistent “knowing” one (intuition).

Every human is born with a “flight or fight” effect. Sometimes the hairs on the back of your neck will stand up, or you get prickly and feel like running. Most of the time, you should pay attention to this feeling. Often, you’ll find that when you feel that way a spider is nearby or you are in serious danger. Do not ignore these nagging feelings, ever. Even if you’re wrong, it’s best to be safe.

The key to developing the all essential trust in yourself is to start small. Don’t make life-changing decisions based on your intuition if you’re not familiar with it (you might still be confusing your two inner voices).

Do ask your intuition to guide you with smaller decisions, and wait for the gentle knowing feeling to arrive. Don’t expect an instant answer, but watch out for it – it will come, and you’ll know it when it does.

Over time, as you tune in more and more, you’ll find you suffer less and less with worry or anxiety. You’ll trust all will work out well, and often you’ll find it works out better than you could ever have imagined! :o)

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