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When faced with something new, something often doesn’t feel right in our gut. Our “gut reaction” is to turn away from this new option. This urge may actually be our trauma gut reaction seeking what we know. This keeps us repeating our Worst Day Cycle rather than trusting our true gut reaction. I had to learn the difference between the two. The true gut reaction is when we make a decision and we know in our gut it was the right thing to do. There is no negativity or fear of unknowns. We don’t question our decision. When it’s a trauma gut reaction, we know something doesn’t feel right. We make a decision based on that, but we second-guess ourselves. When I first started coaching, in the span of three days I lost every single client. My trauma gut reaction was to do what I have always done—to fix the problem by trying to control it. I started looking for networking opportunities. I made a list of prospects and began composing strategic emails to them. I was operating out of pure fear. My trauma gut was doing what it knows best.

Then I caught myself, paused, and got quiet. After several minutes of just being quiet, I knew with complete certainty (true gut reaction) that what I needed to do immediately was get smarter. I spent the next three weeks lying by the pool reading books getting smarter. That’s how I created the Worst Day Cycle. I could have never written this book if it had not been for those three weeks. When we become an expert in our trauma history and know how we self-victimize and drop into denial, we have an opportunity to create a new reality with a new neural pathway in our brain.