A Special Guest Post: Reclaiming the Sacred Voice Within
This week, I’m honored to share a heartfelt piece by a dear friend and luminous soul, Dawna Kreis.
Dawna is a soul guide, intuitive writer, and sacred space-holder who helps sensitive, creative souls reconnect with their inner wisdom through rhythm, reflection, and reverent self-trust.
She’s also the gentle caretaker of The Garden, her soul-led sanctuary for healing and intuitive living.
In this powerful guest post, Dawna invites us to journey inward—to rediscover the quiet wisdom we all carry and learn how to overcome the fear that so often silences our intuitive voice.
If you’ve been struggling to trust your inner guidance—or even to hear it—this message is for you. Let Dawna’s words remind you that your voice is sacred, your knowing is valid, and your path is already unfolding beneath your feet.
👉 Walk with Dawna at thementalmystic.substack.com
Take a deep breath… and read on.
Reclaiming the Sacred Voice Within: How to Overcome Fear and Trust Your Intuition
By Dawna Kreis | The Guardian of The Garden
There is a sacred voice within you. It has always been there, quiet, wise, and unwavering. It doesn’t clamor for attention or demand performance. Instead, it hums gently beneath the noise of everyday life, like a river beneath the frost, steady and alive.
This voice is your intuition. Your sacred knowing. The part of you that listens with your skin, sees with your soul, and speaks in the language of feeling, rhythm, and resonance. You may sense it in the way your breath tightens before a no, or how your chest blooms open before a yes. You might hear it in dreams, in signs and synchronicities, or in those quiet pauses when the world softens and your truth begins to rise.
Still, for many of us, this voice was never named or nurtured. Not because it wasn’t real, but because the world didn’t know how to honor what couldn’t be measured or explained.
As children, we were often told we were too much of something. Too sensitive. Too emotional. Too imaginative. We were taught to trade wonder for caution, and curiosity for compliance. That sacred inner voice, once playful, clear, and alive, was not lost, but gently exiled. Hidden beneath layers of logic, survival, and striving.
And yet, even in exile, our spiritual gifts never left us.
They simply went underground, rooting and remembering, waiting for our return.
Fear Isn’t the Enemy of Intuition, It’s the Doorway
There’s a myth that intuitive people move through life with unwavering clarity. That once intuition awakens, fear dissolves. But the truth is softer and far more human.
Fear and intuition often arrive together. They are not opposites. They are companions on the same path.
Fear tends to rise at the threshold of what matters most. It surfaces when something sacred begins to stir, when your soul starts to remember who you are. It doesn’t mean you’re failing. It means you’re arriving.
For sensitives, empaths, and soul-guided beings—especially those who once felt shamed or silenced—this return can feel tender. Reclaiming your intuitive voice means risking being seen. Not just by the world, but by yourself.
Fear, in this case, is not weakness. It is the body’s way of asking:
Will it be safe to trust myself this time?
The answer is yes.
But we don’t rush that safety.
We rebuild it slowly, softly, and in rhythm with our readiness.
Your Gifts Don’t Need to Be Loud to Be Real
One of the most persistent illusions is that spiritual gifts must be dramatic to be valid. That intuition should arrive with lightning bolts and visions. But most of the time, it doesn’t.
Most intuition is quiet. Subtle. Like a shimmer in your awareness. A whisper that won’t quite leave you alone. A thread of truth you can’t name but can feel.
Your intuition may not look like anyone else’s, and it doesn’t need to. You don’t need to hear voices or channel messages to be considered “gifted.” You don’t need moon codes or cards to be connected.
Intuition is not a performance.
It is a relationship.
It grows through presence, through noticing, through the sacred practice of listening to yourself, especially when the world has trained you not to.
You might feel it while walking in the woods or standing at your kitchen sink. It might arrive as a sudden knowing, a quiet dream, a conversation that lands like medicine, or the way your body sighs in relief after making the right decision.
This is real. This is sacred. And it already lives within you.
Returning to the Voice You Were Taught to Mistrust
So, you might wonder how we can begin again?
Well, we do it not by striving. But by softening.
When fear rises, we don’t rush to override it. We sit beside it. We breathe with it. And we ask gentle, soul-honoring questions like:
What part of me is afraid right now?
What memory is being stirred?
What would it look like to trust myself just a little more today?
This is sacred tending.
A quiet return to relationship.
You do not need to be fearless to be intuitive. You don’t need to be certain to be gifted. You don’t need to erase the fear. You only need to honor it without letting it lead.
Spirit does not require perfection.
It simply asks for your presence.
Intuition Is a Return, Not a Revelation
Your spiritual gifts are not something outside of you waiting to be earned. They live within you, already woven into your being.
They are the language of your soul. They are already whispering, already guiding, already moving through you.
You don’t need a title to claim them.
You don’t need permission to trust them.
You don’t even need to understand them completely.
What matters is the relationship you build with your inner knowing, with your spirit, and with the sacred in whatever form it speaks to you.
The moment you choose to pause, to ask, to listen, something shifts.
Life begins to move in rhythm again.
You start to feel more. Notice more.
You begin to live from the inside out.
This is the gift. This is the path.
It doesn’t have to be dramatic. It doesn’t have to be loud.
It just has to be real.
And it already is.
A Sacred Practice for Coming Home to Your Intuition
Let this moment be a doorway.
Find a quiet space. Light a candle. Or simply place your hand over your heart. Close your eyes. Take a few soft breaths into your belly, letting your shoulders drop and your jaw release.
Then ask yourself gently: What is true for me right now?
Don’t force an answer.
Don’t analyze it.
Just listen.
Let whatever arises… a word, a color, a feeling, a flicker of warmth… be enough. Let it count, even if it’s quiet.
This is how we remember.
This is how we return.
Not through performance, but by honoring what has always been sacred.
Your intuition was never lost.
It was simply waiting for you to listen.
And now, you are.
Dawna Kreis is a soul guide, intuitive writer, and gentle space-holder for sacred becoming. She helps sensitive, creative souls reconnect with their inner wisdom through rhythm, reflection, and reverent self-trust. Dawna is also the caretaker of The Garden… a soul-led sanctuary for healing, joy, and intuitive living. Come walk with her at thementalmystic.substack.com.