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    Intuition: Aligning with Your True North

    by Stefanie Shaughnessy Jun 04, 2021 2 minutes
    Intuition: Aligning with Your True North, by Stefanie Shaughnessy. Photograph of compass in water by Jamie Street.
    Photograph by Jamie Street

    Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

    One woman’s journey of flipping on the switch and connecting to her internal compass — her intuition

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    I walked around for years with my intuition completely shut off, like a light switch that had been flipped. As a child of a parent who struggled with drug and alcohol issues, I donned a cloak of invisibility. I mastered the art of compartmentalization in the moments

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