That "I just know" feeling? There's science behind it (Q&A Monday)

Hi friend,

Have you ever walked into the room and known something was off before he said a single word?

The shift in his tone. The way the air changed. That knot in your stomach that showed up before the conversation did.

And then maybe you second-guessed yourself. Told yourself you were overreacting. Too sensitive. Making it up.

You weren't.

This month I'm walking you through a fascinating new paper from Frontiers in Sociology (Verma & Kind, 2025) that reframes intuition as something real and embodied: your nervous system's way of reading the emotional weather in a room. The researchers describe attunement as the body's way of knowing, and they explain why women so often develop it more strongly, through caregiving, emotional socialization, and all that invisible relational labor we carry.

Here's where it gets personal for us: when you've spent years tracking someone else's moods to keep the peace, that attunement can tip into hypervigilance. So we'll talk about:

• Why your "gut feeling" is information, not paranoia
• The difference between healthy attunement and walking on eggshells
• How to trust what your body knows without making yourself responsible for everyone else's nervous system
• How this connects to the P.A.U.S.E. Method when conflict starts heating up

📅 Monday, October 12
🕛 12:00 PM Central (1 PM Eastern / 11 AM Mountain / 10 AM Pacific)
📍 https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84382416391?pwd=9kKenulTkxuZcyKQWmnWrJT2sV9Zu1.1

Meeting ID: 843 8241 6391

Passcode: 578935

Bring your questions, your "is this just me?" moments, all of it. This is a no-judgment space, and you are not crazy.

Can't make it live? No problem, I'll send the replay.

See you Monday,
Danielle