Trusting Your Gut: Using Intuition to Heal Chronic Stress

In this episode of The Art of Imperfect Adulting, host Amy Stone welcomes Catherine Crestani, leadership coach and former speech language pathologist from Australia. Catherine shares her transformative journey—from building a thriving business at the expense of her well-being, to restoring her health by embracing intuition and her psychic gifts. Together, they explore how chronic stress can sneak into our lives, what it looks like to be the bottleneck in your own business, and the power of spiritual reawakening to find true alignment and happiness.

Meet the Guest: Catherine Crestani focuses on empowering mothers  to find their voice in business, family, and health beginning with self-leadership. In 90 days, clients experience changes in self-belief, their focus, courage, health and business.

After experiencing chronic health crisis, Catherine chose to leave a 6-figure company that she built herself and was left to face her own worth story, living paycheck to paycheck weekly, and crises in her family life. Through her own experiences, she draws wisdom from this crisis and now teaches clients what it means to practically choose their own authentic path that allows them to voice this in business, family and health.

Main Topics Covered:

• Early morning routines and self-care as a busy mother
• Recognizing and facing chronic stress and adrenal fatigue
• The hidden costs of being the center of your business and family
• Catherine’s journey through spiritual reawakening and the discovery of her psychic gifts
• The power and practice of intuition in daily and professional life
• Creating new standards, values, and non-negotiables after stepping away from entrepreneurship
• How incremental change and energy work can bring lasting transformation
• Tips on aligning your life with your deeper values and spiritual insights

Quote from the Episode:"The biggest thing was learning to trust it. Because so often we have this guidance come from within us, but we don't know if it's that voice in our head, the ego... Or do we listen to a different voice that comes from within?" — Catherine Crestani

Topics and Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 – Amy and Catherine’s energetic 5am start; self-care routines for moms
• 00:03:00 – Chronic stress and the slippery slope of being the business bottleneck
• 00:07:28 – Catherine’s previous life: building and running a growing speech pathology company
• 00:16:43 – Recognizing intuition: early experiences, “gut feelings,” and psychic hits
• 00:20:51 – Developing and trusting psychic gifts, from inherited abilities to medical intuition
• 00:33:33 – The “dark night of the soul,” letting go, and selling the business
• 00:37:04 – Setting new boundaries, family time, and non-negotiables for a healthier life
• 00:45:19 – Catherine’s new work: leadership coaching, intuitive sessions, and how to connect
• 00:49:47 – Fun rapid-fire: morning beverages, roadtrip snacks, and favorite high school class

Connect with Catherine Crestani:

Authentically You Session - A 30-minute business energetic consultation to determine the blocks and steps forward on your journey. The session is worth $110 and can be booked using the following link https://calendly.com/willowhealing/authentically-me

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