When Angels Get Loud with Host Tara Hynes Episode 3 Angels Connect Podcast

This story begins after a long shift in the hospital and anyone who's worked nights knows that feeling like you're walking between worlds.

As I walked, I found myself reflecting on all the times I'd ignored that inner voice.

To give you an example, On night shift, I would sometimes hear my name being called clear enough that I'd turn around and ask my colleagues, did you call me? They'd laugh.

No, they'd say, you're hearing things.

And so I learned to tell myself the same thing.

Sure, I must be.

And instead, I trusted what could be proven.

The charts, the monitors.

Science and medicine.

Don't get me wrong.

I'd cultivated intuition.

That's a skill most nurses perfect.

But this voice, this was different.

Not leaving it up to a whatever.

What I slowly began to notice, that voice, that feeling, the one I was so quick to dismiss, it has never, ever led me astray.

Every time I followed it, even when it didn't make sense, it led me exactly where I needed.

To a patient in distress, to somebody close to the end of their life, to moments that matter deeply.

The voice never said, here's why.

And it never gave me the rule book.

It simply spoke.

Sometimes it guided me in unexpected ways.

Different things I'd be prompted or urged to do.

I'd feel an urge to send a heartfelt message to someone I barely knew.

Send an email that felt far too personal, far too intimate and almost embarrassing.

I'd sit there thinking, this is ridiculous.