There are voices in our head, all the time — doubting ourselves and others, questioning, wondering, thinking thoughts we decided to believe years ago… perhaps even as children. Sometimes it’s our mother’s voice we hear, our friends’s, our partner’s; or our own fear, anger or guilt perhaps. It can be difficult to find our instinctive voice amongst all the others. We can mistake these voices for our instinct if we are unaware of them. We are more able to recognise them when we know what our pure instinct feels like.

Our pure instinct binds us to the unaltered essence and core of ourselves. It guides us to do what works for each of us, as individuals. It takes us to our own individual place of peace with it’s own individual path. It knows who we are beneath chaos in our lives and heads. It can provide us with answers before problems even appear. It does this, not just for us, but for our children.

Children are innately aware of their instinct and use it naturally. The world around them plants seeds that grow into thoughts of doubt and self-distrust.

We tune into our children through connecting purely to their moment, and clearing our heads of all thoughts, judgments and ‘voices’. Here, we discover and uncover their pure core. Here, we also discover and uncover our pure instinctive voice. We find deep clarity, confidence and connectedness in this place.

The more of these moments we have, the more our joy of mothering expands and the more we do it. Our children sense this profound connection deeply, which not only awakens our instinct — it cements theirs.

All this further connects us. So, tuning in is an ever evolving, enriching process of love, connection and fulfillment.

Each segment and chapter in Intuitive Mothering looks at different ways to ‘tune in’, or ‘tune out’ the distractions that block the tuning in process. Influences and pressures often quite subliminally creep into our lives and thoughts.