A 5 Part Somatic Roadmap to Trusting Your Gut 😮 After 10 years of back-to-back cohorts, I’m finally following the illogical voice of my intuition:

Oh my, a message I never thought I’d write.

Let me pull off the band-aid! I’m closing my practitioner certification 😮

For the past 10 years (10!) I have led back-to-back cohorts. I’ve trained hundreds of students who range from newbies switching careers to multi-PhD doctors who want to become fully accredited EFT practitioners but alas…

This final epic cohort of students is graduating in September and after being that woman who dates back-to-back without a break, I am taking a break.

On Monday morning, for the first time ever, I closed the enrollment cart 😬

The heartbreak pangs are REAL.

My favorite part of every week (for the last decade) is when I’m nerding out with my students-in-training.

I’m so very proud of the certification I’ve built, refined, and iterated on to the nth degree. Im proud of being one of the youngest Master Trainers.

I’m proud of all my students who…‍ ‍bravely confronted their inner children in the womb,

broken chains for their ancestors,

tapped on behalf of their children’s children,

and discovered their real niche based on their human design instead of someone else’s pain point.

Maybe it’s all that inner work that has made me more ATTUNED to the persistent voice in my gut saying, “IT IS TIME

But dangggg its hard to close somethign so GOOD.

What was meant to be a two-sentence email saying “Cart closed but not to fear - lifetime access to courses are still here…” LOL… has taken on a life of its own.

This essay is officially a roadmap to trust your gut even when it doesn’t make sense.

Its an invitation to stop waiting for the urgency of a last-chance-final-countdown email to finally choose…. But to choose based on the urgency of your own heart.

When you run your own business, no boss is telling you when to make a hard pivot.

• There is no LAST-CHANCE-to-apply email from a recruiter.

• There is no submit-by-midnight making you finally click publish.

• There is only YOU, your gut, and the gumption to take action before someone hangs urgency over her head.

Which is why I had to hype myself up with what I call an Evidence Journal (just 1 of 6 ways you can tap back into self trust) especially around Evidence when I trusted my gut even when it didn’t make sense… and magic happened.

Grab your most colorful pen and join me.

Evidence Journal that you can trust your gut beyond logic:

Just think about 1x that you trusted your gut despite logic, despite metrics, despite other people’s opinions, and it worked out for you.

Maybe it was a flight that you booked, or a meal that you ordered, or a person you went up and talked to, or a left turn you did or didn’t take, or a class that you were afraid to take, but it changed your life.

As you read my evidence journal examples, get curious about your own.

Evidence 1. At 20: Applying to Semester at Sea.

A study abroad program where you board a boat that circumnavigates the globe in 4 months. All my classmates were doing a traditional semester of college or study abroad that my department severely pressured me to do. “Jackie, why would you pass on this coveted program in London?” Because my intuition is calling me to sea LOL. Following my intuition changed my life and career trajectory. I was on track to work at Conde Nast and that trip redefined that I wanted to do service work.

Evidence 2. In 2010 - Only applying to jobs in California even though I had a job waiting for me at NYC NBCUniversal (that now felt soul-sucking).

My gut said to only apply to jobs in California even though a steady career and all my childhood friends were in New York or Boston. I told myself I would go for two years and “get it out of my system” 🙊

I got accepted by a global teaching fellowship that placed me in Los Angeles! Hardest job I’ve ever had, but week 1 I met soul sisters I’m still on a group thread with, month 4 I met my spiritual community, month 6 my husband walked up to me and introduced himself. 16 years later and I’m still in Southern California.

Evidence 3. In Winter 2020 - I decided to only take digital clients.

I had been working as an EFT practitioner and Reiki master with an at-home office, and my calendar was finally humming - but I got the hunch I needed to move ALL my clients to digital. Eeeek. Unheard of at the time. 70% of y clients were in person and 50% of my clients left me when I told them I would no longer see them in person.

BUT I had this ‘illogical’ feeling that, “I just feel like I need to transition them to digital NOW.”

When COVID hit 5 months later, all of those clients I lost called me and said, “Do you do virtual sessions?” Why yes. Yes I do. My income doubled that year because I had all the systems and boundaries set up to hold space online.

Evidence 4. Summer 2025 - We sold our dream home the weekend of the stock market crash.

My husband and I had built a dream home in Northern California. Some of you know it - backyard office, garden, sauna - like living the life for half the price ya know!? But when we tuned into our future, we didn’t see an image of raising kids in Sonoma County.

We kept seeing a move to North San Diego (where we now live).

Our entire family and friend group said, “But how can you sell that house!? You have a 3.2% interest rate ?! The rent is double in SoCal! The rates are in the 7-8%! You won’t make friends after 30.”

Let me tell you, we sold that house for 100k over asking. We met, in the one month after moving, more high-vibe people than five years in a different city. We found a dream rental walking distance to a beach, where we are never on the hook for replacing our septic or well 😹.

Despite all odds… My intuition never steers me wrong.

Use your evidence journal as proof that when you follow your gut, magic awaits.

For the past 3 years, I’ve felt tugged to take a break but there is no deadline to taking a break.

So I’ve delayed.

I’ve made excuses to ‘just lead one more cohort…’

I kept waiting for life to give me ‘a sign’ to stop. Funny how we ignore the signs.

• My daughter’s childcare didn’t work out… maybe this is the sign. But I didn’t break.

• We moved our entire life 11 hours south… surely THIS is a good time to pause, regroup, and resettle. I kept launching.

Maybe I’m the only one who loves asking my intuition for advice and then ignoring her 🫠

Are there repercussions for not trusting your gut?

Of course not - unless you like efficiency.

Whether we listen to our intuition or ignore her, we can encounter miracles.

My intuition has nudged me to pause certification for three years but in those 3 years glorious things happened: 6 amazing cohorts of students, three 150+ page Somatic EFT training manuals, three new iterations of my business course, a much-needed neurodivergent twist to my kids course, and a live relaunch of my complex trauma training, a new home in San Diego, a new kid 😆 ……

We are NOT punished for ignoring our intuition.

Life course-corrects around our doubt.

If you don’t trust your intuition and choose your comfort zone instead, miracles will happen anyway!

If I ignore my intuition and launch another cohort this fall - it will be marvelous. But my intuition, and whatever she has for me - would be left waiting.

But I am ready, after lots of lovely scenic detours, to see what happens if I follow my intuition’s directions exactly as she maps them out to me.

If I had a spare 90 minutes, I would walk you through the exact somatic roadmap I took myself through (and share the not-so-funny details of a business failure I just experienced) that made me finally say yes to my gut.

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It includes one of my signature Contemplative Tapping Exercises, a T Chart tapping protocol, a mildly awkward affirmation technique that works, and a reckoning with the part of ourselves that is deathly afraid of trusting ourselves because that would mean disappointing a whole lot of people.

My lifetime access courses are hills I will die on - also refined to the nth degree and ready to serve you for years to come here.

😂 If you want a 5-part somatic roadmap to reconnect to intuition, clarity, and that gut feeling of trusting you’re making the right decision even if it goes against everyone else’s advice… find it on my substack here.