Anxiety Is Not Intuition — Here’s How to Tell the Difference

In this episode, Brittany explores the critical difference between anxiety and intuition through a nervous-system–led lens. She unpacks why urgency is so often mistaken for guidance, especially among high-achieving women, and how chronic anxiety quietly replaces self-trust over time.

This conversation invites you to stop treating intensity as wisdom and begin understanding anxiety as a protective response — creating the safety required for intuition to emerge naturally.

In This Episode, We Cover:

• Why anxiety is not a flaw, but a nervous system response
• How urgency becomes mistaken for intuition
• Why high-achieving women rely on anxiety to make decisions
• The cost of letting anxiety lead in relationships, business, and money
• How regulation creates space for intuition to surface
• What intuition actually feels like in a regulated body

Who This Episode Is For:

• Women who feel anxious but are afraid to ignore it
• High-achievers who struggle to trust their decisions
• Anyone confusing urgency with alignment
• Women ready to rebuild self-trust through regulation

 Next Steps:

If this episode resonated in your body, The Regulated Woman is the place to begin.