Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Aug/Sept 2019 Aspire Mag FINAL | Page 32

LIVE YOUR Divinity How Learning to Trust My Intuition Led to an D E R E W O P EM Life BY JAMI HEARN E venings filled with tossing, turning, and voices of self-doubt dancing in my head. I can’t even count the number of nights I saw all the hours on the clock between laying down and the sun coming up. Three o’clock in the morning was always my favorite one. Some refer to it as the witching hour. As I lay there in the dark, thrashing my blanket, negative chatter screaming in my head, I’d beseech sleep to come. Instead my mind would dredge up every misstep, every perceived error, every thoughtless choice. It seemed that the three o’clock hour was the most evocative because that was where the real messy feelings of guilt and judgment showed up. 32 www.AspireMAG.net | August / September 2019