When Your Intuition Whispers, Do You Listen?

Описание: In this episode of Open Heart, Priya Rao, MD sits down with Fran Bell, an intuitive healer and former competitive athlete whose work bridges physical injury, lived experience, and forms of knowing that don’t fit neatly inside conventional systems.

Together, they explore what it means to trust intuition in a world that asks for proof, and how healing often begins before we have language for it.

In this conversation, they explore:
■ How a childhood injury disrupted Fran’s life and quietly reshaped how she understood the body and healing
■ What intuition actually feels like in lived experience, not as a concept or belief
■ How people are trained out of sensing and into over-reliance on cognition and control
■ Why many capable, rational people struggle to trust what they feel if it can’t be measured
■ The tension between evidence-based medicine and forms of healing that require participation rather than certainty
■ How physical symptoms, emotional patterns, and life direction often intersect
■ What integration can look like when medicine and intuition are allowed to work side by side
■ Why healing does not always mean “feeling better,” and how meaning, purpose, and wholeness can show up in unexpected ways

Fran Bell works with people whose symptoms, pain, or sense of disconnection have not been fully explained by conventional approaches alone. Her perspective is grounded in lived experience with injury, athletics, and years of working directly with the body. In this conversation, she offers language for experiences many people sense but hesitate to trust, especially when those experiences fall outside familiar systems of validation.

Follow Fran Bell
Website: https://franbell.com
Instagram:   / franbell_integratedhealing  

Top Moments
00:00 Introduction to intuition, injury, and lived experience
01:30 A childhood accident that changed how Fran understood healing
03:15 Learning to sense the body beyond cognition
05:20 Being trained to fit in and hide unconventional ways of knowing
07:00 Finding language for intuition later in life
08:50 Athletics, injury, and reading the body
10:55 Why intuition is difficult to “prove”
12:20 What integrated healing actually means in practice
14:10 Working alongside physicians and medical systems
15:45 A shared case that changed the course of care
17:30 Rethinking what healing means
19:10 Layers of identity, heart, and self
21:30 Living with unanswered questions
23:40 What it means to follow what’s in front of you

Hosted by Priya Rao, MD
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Open Heart is a space for grounded conversations about where systems, training, and conventional frameworks fall short of lived human experience. The show explores what happens when logic, competence, and achievement no longer explain everything we feel.

Many people sense that something is missing in how they relate to their bodies, their work, or their lives, but they do not yet have language for it. This conversation does not offer answers or certainty. It offers recognition. It sits with the tension between what can be proven and what must be experienced, and invites curiosity about how healing is understood when multiple ways of knowing are allowed to coexist.

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