When Your Intuition Whispers, Do You Listen?

In this episode of Open Heart, Priya Rao, MD sits down with Fran Bell, an intuitive healer and former competitive athlete whose work bridges physical injury, lived experience, and forms of knowing that don’t fit neatly inside conventional systems.Together, they explore what it means to trust intuition in a world that asks for proof, and how healing often begins before we have language for it.In this conversation, they explore:■ How a childhood injury disrupted Fran’s life and quietly reshaped how she understood the body and healing■ What intuition actually feels like in lived experience, not as a concept or belief■ How people are trained out of sensing and into over-reliance on cognition and control■ Why many capable, rational people struggle to trust what they feel if it can’t be measured■ The tension between evidence-based medicine and forms of healing that require participation rather than certainty■ How physical symptoms, emotional patterns, and life direction often intersect■ What integration can look like when medicine and intuition are allowed to work side by side■ Why healing does not always mean “feeling better,” and how meaning, purpose, and wholeness can show up in unexpected waysFran Bell works with people whose symptoms, pain, or sense of disconnection have not been fully explained by conventional approaches alone. Her perspective is grounded in lived experience with injury, athletics, and years of working directly with the body. In this conversation, she offers language for experiences many people sense but hesitate to trust, especially when those experiences fall outside familiar systems of validation.Follow Fran BellWebsite: https://franbell.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/franbell_integratedhealingTop Moments00:00 Introduction to Fran Bell: Intuitive Healer01:25 Fran's Childhood and Awakening of Gifts03:52 Developing and Trusting Intuition08:41 Integrating Physical and Spiritual Healing11:14 Synergy Between Intuitive Healing and Medicine17:17 Commitment to a Spirit-Led Life33:16 Gratitude Practice and Its Impact37:40 Embracing the Path of Healing38:41 The Journey of Channeling40:27 Understanding Channeling41:38 The Role of Trust in Healing45:30 Integrity in Healing Practices52:44 The Courage to Heal55:47 The Deeper Purpose of Healing01:01:33 Concluding Thoughts on HealingHosted by Priya Rao, MDhttps://www.openheartpodcast.comhttps://www.instagram.com/priyaraomdhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/priyaraomdOur SponsorsThank you to our sponsors for supporting this episode:Don’t Miss a Beat: https://linktr.ee/dontmissabeatSummit Wealth Financial Advisors: https://www.summitwealthgroup.com/Subscribe to Open Heart with Priya Rao, MD for grounded conversations with people who are curious about intuition, meaning, and different ways of understanding healing and human experience.Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.