to other anxious witches, here’s some advice (from my experience, at least) about separating anxiety from listening to your own insight, gut, or omen interpretation:
-it feels VERY different. while anxious thoughts tend to throw you into a frenzy, your gut instinct usually doesn’t. it feels like a sure thing, but not in a self-deprecating, spiralling way, like a lot of anxious thoughts. its more of a Fact, and one that you can take or leave, not something where your brain can back you into a corner.
-it generally doesn’t spiral, like, at all. it feels like one statement, and it doesn’t generally branch out to several horrible what-ifs. it may supply some what-ifs, but they feel more like direct consequences, not spiraling out into worse and worse worst case scenarios.
-it feels very internal, in a way that’s kinda hard to describe, and that I’m not sure I’d be able to identify as such if I hadn’t had therapy. If you can pinpoint anxieties that you picked up from trauma, from other people, etc. well enough, you can better know what is your own brain talking, and what is your trauma and anxiety talking. It doesn’t feel ‘influenced’, if you’ve worked through enough to know the difference.