Awaken Your Inner Whole Woman
Awaken Your Inner Whole Woman
You Already Know: Breaking Free from Decision Paralysis
Have you ever found yourself saying "I just need clarity" when deep down, you already knew the answer? That moment of hesitation isn't about lacking information—it's about seeking permission to trust what you already know.
Welcome to the first installment of our powerful six-part series "You Already Know," where we explore the hidden truths behind our decision-making paralysis. As women, we've been conditioned to doubt ourselves, question our desires, and wait for external validation before moving forward with choices our souls have already made. This episode peels back the layers of what we're really seeking when we say we need clarity.
Through intimate stories from my retreats and workshops, I share how one woman's quest for "clarity" about a personal growth decision revealed her deeper fear: that pursuing her desires might mean outgrowing her relationship. Her story mirrors what I've seen in countless women—and experienced myself—this pattern of knowing but waiting for someone else to give us permission to act on that knowledge.
The journey to self-trust is perhaps the most transformative path a woman can walk. Between the noise of life and the quiet of your soul lies a profound truth: you already know. This episode offers not just insight but practical tools, including a guided breathwork practice to help you connect with your inner wisdom and release the need for external permission.
Ready to stop limiting yourself and settling for less than what you want? Join me as we clear away the noise and activate the power of choice that's already within you. Your soul's voice is speaking—it's time to listen.
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Natolie Warren, Your Whole Woman Coach & Founder of The Whole Woman Experience.
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Healing and Wholeness for Every Woman
Welcome to Awaken your Inner Whole Woman, the show for spiritually rooted women who are hungry for change and growth. I am your host, natalie Warren, and my mission as a personal development strategist and inner healer is to inspire, educate and motivate women worldwide to stop limiting themselves and settling for less than what they want and were created to be. If you are ready to transform your life by getting out of your own way, hearing your soul's voice above the noise and activating your life's purpose, you are at the best place. Let's tune in to today's episode of. You are at the best place. Let's tune in to today's episode of Awaken your Inner Whole Woman. Hello, hello and welcome to Awaken your Inner Whole Woman podcast. I am Natalie Warren, your host, and I'm just glad to be with you today. I don't know how your day has started or how it's going, but just to be able to be with you in your space and share with you something important. So I am excited about sharing a new series. It's actually going to be a six-part journey that we're going to walk through together and it's called you Already Know, you Already Know, and I found this to be something that women who I've been able to work with and all the work that I get to do need to be reminded of. We're going to look at it and talk through it and really support you, because it really isn't about handing you a list of answers. This is helping you to remember the truth, and that truth, I believe, is already within you, which is why you're here, because you're ready to wake up to the truth. You're ready to wake up to healing and transformation and the truth of who you are and why you came to the world. There is a part of you that is calling you into that and I want you to know that you already know. So this moment will be or our time in this series is going to be about that, because between the noise the noise of life and the quiet of your soul, when you're really able to sit with that truth, I already know it invites women to start to activate the power of choice, and that's certainly something that I love, love, love doing. So I'm back now.
Speaker 1:It has been after summer break at this point, and that's always an adjustment to go into it and then come out of that season and kind of find my rhythm and find where I'm putting my focus in this part of the year, and so I'm delighted to talk to you about it. I can share for a moment that I can never forget a season of my life where I knew a decision was calling for me, and maybe you can relate. You're in a state of having to make a decision and every sign, every conversation, maybe every restless night for you, it all points in one direction, but we don't do anything with it. Right? We tell ourselves, I don't know, I'm not sure, maybe All of those type things come to your mind and it ultimately becomes a matter of we not being able to trust ourselves to make the right choice. So many women tell me Natalie, I don't know, I'm waiting on clarity, I'm waiting on clarity, I'm waiting on clarity, I'm waiting on clarity. Even many come to my retreats, come to my workshops, come to breathwork sessions, even to therapy, and the question is like I'm just seeking clarity and this idea of what is it that women really are seeking, beyond clarity? And there are five truths that this series is going to help you with that. Beyond clarity, there are five truths that I really think you're seeking, even if you don't know it, so you've made decisions before you do know what to do. But oftentimes in this first part of the series, we're talking about trust and trusting ourselves, and so it leads us to having these fears, this fear of regret, this fear of failure, this fear of disappointing someone you love. That one is huge and it ends up clouding your vision, clouding your ability to choose, and it convinces you in a very subtle sometimes, what feels like an adaptive way, but we know it's maladaptive, convinces us to wait. I'm waiting for the perfect information, but the perfect information never comes.
Speaker 1:So, at a retreat, I remembered a lady sharing that. You know, I'm just seeking clarity. And so as we dived deeper into well, what exactly do you need clarity on? And she expounds a little more and shares around something she'd like to do for herself. And as we explored even more, I thought, well, why not do those things? And then it became clear If I do this, how will this impact my relationship? How will this impact my relationship? Now, that's not where she started with what she was wanting clarity on. But as we dug deeper, as I got into the why is this important and what will this give you and what will change as a result of you having this?
Speaker 1:Like so many of us, our fear is of disappointment and the idea for her was, if I choose this thing for myself, two things could happen that I could leave my partner behind in that particular area and they were happily married. But the idea of I might actually leave this person behind, I might outgrow them or somehow be in a different place, that was scary. And so, as I am hearing her, I'm thinking well, this isn't a matter of clarity, because you choose all the time, and in her life and in positions of leadership, she's making decisions all the time. So it wasn't an inability to decide. It actually was a bigger question that she wanted to know was can I trust myself and can I have permission? And so that's what I offered her in that moment. I said it sounds like you're looking for a permission. They are in the space, just like yourself, where they're saying I want clarity. What they are really saying is I want to trust myself, to make a decision and I really want permission. This was mind-blowing because I thought about how many times I've seen this in the lives of women. But how many times in my own life have I been waiting on permission, whether it was from a partner, a family member, from the community, from a friend. Somewhere was there a place where I was saying I want someone to tell me this is okay. I want someone to say go with what you think or feel. I want someone to say trust yourself. And so, as we begin this series, I really invite you to start to have that conversation with yourself and asking what is it that I really want? Because the truth is, as I've said before, I already know, she already knew that particular lady, that she wanted to grow. She already knew she wanted to do this particular thing. She wanted to do this particular thing.
Speaker 1:But we in society have been conditioned to doubt ourselves, to question what we want, to wait for permission, hoping that someone will confirm it for us. And it runs deep because sometimes, as I've worked with so many women and this is true for men as well sometimes we'll even put that confirmation on God. I'm waiting on God to give me clarity. In actuality, we're saying I'm hoping that God will confirm it for me. I hope you're taking that in, because I have certainly been in that space as well. And when we're able to move through that and realize that what I'm really seeking is self-trust, then we cultivate it. We move into the space of saying how can I learn to trust myself more of saying how can I learn to trust myself more? Where in my life have I known the answer long before you, or I committed to it ourselves, the answer that you already knew. How often where in your life do you find yourself doing that?
Speaker 1:I hope you can take a breath with me and realize, first and foremost, you're not alone, but secondly, acknowledging that I already know, and if this resonates with you, I invite you to continue to stay with me on this journey. We're going to walk together through this six-part series in helping you to understand that, that you can clear the noise and ultimately connect to the deepest wisdom that's already within you. You can release the need for permission. We're going to talk about more of those that we are also looking for in our search for clarity and how you can really stand in the truth. I already know. I already know, so let's close out this with a little breathing.
Speaker 1:I am a certified trauma-informed breathwork facilitator, if you're new to this community, and I teach people how to breathe, and one of the ways that you can become grounded in knowing is to connect with the breath. So for a moment, I invite you, if you will close your eyes if it's safe to do so, or leave them open, and we're going to take a breath in through the nose and out through the mouth, breathing in again at your pace, at your speed. You can't do it wrong. Inhaling through the nose, exhaling through the mouth and as we're doing this next breath, I'm inviting you. As you take in, we're taking in a truth I already know, saying it aloud or to yourself, and when you exhale, we're releasing the need for permission. Inhaling in, exhaling out the need for permission and letting it go, seeing it melt away with the breath and remembering. You can always do that in those moments where it feels like you don't know. I invite women to take a breath before they even say I don't know. Take a breath and allow whatever is present to rise, whatever truth there is to rise, and oftentimes they'll realize I already know.
Speaker 1:Thank you for listening into this episode. You are part of a series right now. I invite you to join us and stay tuned and if this has spoken to you, leave it in the chat, leave it in the notes, let me know you're listening and even leave a review so that others can also see that I am ready to awaken my inner whole woman Until the next episode. Bye for now. Thanks for listening to Awaken your Inner Whole Woman. If you liked our show and want to know more, check us out at wwwawakentothenumber2powercom. You can also leave us a review on iTunes and we would love to hear your feedback. Join us next week for another episode of Awaken your Inner Whole Woman.