26/03/2026
Your stomach tightens. Your head starts running through possibilities.
Something doesn’t feel right… but you can’t quite tell why.
Is that intuition?
Or is it anxiety?
A lot of people struggle to tell the difference, especially if they’ve been under pressure for a long time.
Because the two can feel very similar.
One way to start making sense of it is to notice what happens next.
Anxiety tends to build.
One thought leads to another, and another, until everything starts to feel overwhelming.
Intuition doesn’t usually do that.
It’s more of a quiet sense that something is off, without needing to keep expanding.
Anxiety often pulls you into the future — all the “what ifs.”
Intuition tends to relate to what’s happening in the moment.
The difficulty is that when your system is already under strain, those signals can get mixed together.
So it’s not always about trying to “trust your gut.”
It’s about understanding what state your system is in when that signal shows up.
My latest blog can help you to understand what is going on and ways to manage and work with those feelings.
https://wellsidelimited.co.uk/the-difference-between-anxiety-and-intuition-and-how-to-tell-them-apart.html
