Coaching practices for Gut Feeling Check

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• My body keeps sending me messages
• This decision just "feels right" and I want to go with it, but I can’t shake the worry that the good feeling is really about my mood today, not about whether it’s actually a smart call.
• I’ve got a strong gut feeling about this, but I’m honestly not sure I can trust it here
• Part of me already knows the checking is overkill, but I keep doing it anyway, and I’ve never once let myself just not
• The urge to check, to google it, to ask someone "are we okay" hits like a command I can’t not obey

Practices that may help

1. Read bodily signals as information
   Treat tension, energy dips, and gut feelings as data about needs and emotions, not just noise.
   Interoception, Explained
2. Check whether your judgment is tracking affect, not the target attribute
   When a decision "just feels right," ask whether the feeling is about the actual question or about your current emotional state.
   Attribute Substitution: When Your Brain Answers a Different Question
3. Know when intuition is unreliable
   Expert intuition is valid only when the domain has regular patterns and you’ve had feedback-rich experience in it.
   Recognition-Primed Decision Making
4. Run uncertainty experiments
   Deliberately leave small things uncertain and observe what actually happens.
   Accepting Uncertainty: The Core Skill in CBT for GAD
5. Apply defusion to reassurance-seeking urges
   When you feel the urge to check or seek reassurance, defuse the urge itself, not just the content.
   Defusion from Anxious Thoughts
6. Check the facts first
   Decide whether the emotion actually fits the situation before doing anything about it.
   Opposite Action: Acting Against the Emotion’s Urge
7. Ask 'What am I missing?' before major decisions
   Treat a confident feeling before a high-stakes decision as a cue to check what your competence map is omitting.
   Circle of Competence
8. Postpone rather than eliminate reassurance-seeking
   When you feel the urge to check or ask, wait 20 minutes first — and usually the urge passes.
   Accepting Uncertainty: The Core Skill in CBT for GAD
9. Check the Facts, Made Practical
   "Check the facts" is a DBT emotion regulation skill for testing whether an emotion is justified by the actual situation or whether it is firing based on an interpretation — a story the mind has added. The underlying mechanism (examining the evidence for a belief) is the same as cognitive restructuring in CBT, which has strong randomized-trial support for anxiety and depression. DBT packages it specifically as a regulation tool, to be used when the emotion may not fit the facts.
10. Find the felt sense
    Locate the unclear, whole-body sense of a situation before you name it.
    Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical

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