Both.

I just spent eight hours at a Women’s Health Conference in the city. Surrounded by medical research, updates and guidelines.

Tomorrow I’ll start on a self-directed online course on medical mediumship to learn more about how my intuition can be a useful and valuable part of my practice.

Both are valuable to my personal and professional development. Both are valid. Both are necessary for me to find and maintain balance in my work- like both shades of my BB cream are necessary to match my skin tone .

My intuition brought me to both and showed me how each is a part of the right next step for me at this time. My intuition plays a part in what I choose to study and learn out of the endless, infinite options available these days so that I remain on the right path for me.

I had a conversation with a friend recently. I mentioned something someone else had said to me, when I had been exploring how and where intuition fits into my work. I was thinking about how and if I could be open about it and questioning how it might be perceived and in each of these connected conversations something new clicked.

It’s not magic, the first response had begun, it might feel like magic but your intuition comes from your vast and varied experience. It comes from your ability to keep a clear and grounded connection with yourself and create one with others. In the second conversation, I still wasn’t sure until this friend created a visual for me, of a filing or cataloging system.

What ‘comes up’ for me from somewhere inside is a knowing and a connection with what to draw on from where, in response to what is in front of me, what is being said or shared or asked. It feels like magic and it’s also real and valid. It feels automatic and out of my control but it is a process I am driving subconsciously.

Everything I study adds to what is sitting in the filing cabinet. The work I do on myself and my intuition strengthens my ability to catalogue it and use what I have filed well and appropriately for each situation I face with a woman or family.

These ‘two worlds’ that sometimes emerge for me, one of logic and science and the other of intuition and wisdom are only as far apart as I make them. The gap and conflict between them will only be as big as I allow it to be.

The overlap and complement in between will grow to the space that I create and protect for it. It will continue to fill with what I have capacity to hold.

We can never have too many perspectives or truths when it comes to our health, when we learn how to seperate the nudges from the noise.

Growing and connecting to your intuition doesn’t require you to ignore or throw away health advice, guidelines or recommendations.

It helps you to be able to consider and use those things well. To get the very best out of them for you, your health and your family.