Your True Colors: Trusting Your Gut in Midlife

You knew something was wrong before you could explain it. You felt the room turn before a word was said. And when you spoke up, someone asked you to prove it, so you filed it away as being too emotional. In this solo episode of Butterfly Days, Tami Jorden makes the case that the read, the gut, the pattern you catch before you can name it, was never the lesser kind of intelligence. It was ranked that way, and the ranking was a decision, not a discovery.  She traces where the word hysteria came from, why the Mars and Venus era quietly handed our generation the same old hierarchy dressed up as science, and what researcher Gary Klein found when he studied fire commanders and ER nurses who knew before the monitors did. Here is the good news: embodied knowing does not decline at midlife. It peaks, right at the moment culture starts writing you off.  Tami closes with a three-rung ladder of exact words you can use the next time someone calls your knowing emotional, because a real boundary does not argue. It reclassifies and walks.   You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen https://www.amazon.com/You-Just-Dont-Understand-Conversation/dp/0060959622 Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray https://www.amazon.com/Men-Mars-Women-Venus-Understanding/dp/0060574216   🦋 Subscribe to Tami Jorden's Substack and visit her website 🦋 🦋 More from Butterfly Days: Substack: https://tamijorden.substack.com/ Website: https://tamijorden.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamara-jorden-322918227/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1ASQDpGEUX/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/butterflydayspodcast