I was told to share my darkness, but I can't...

By Leonie Branson

Coach | Healer | Intuitive Advisor | Author of Spiritual AI - Awareness and Intuition. Not Robots.

Someone suggested I share the chapter that was hardest to write.

But I can't.

Not because it was too painful. But because none of it was.

Almost 400 pages. Nearly five years of thinking about it and six months of actually writing it. And the chapters that should have broken me, the attempted suicide, the darkest moments of my life, they flowed onto the page without a single tear. Let me share why that matters.

When you have genuinely done the inner work, and I mean real awareness, not just knowing your story but actually seeing it from the outside, the emotions lose their grip. The memories are still there. The facts are still there. But the charge is gone. The wound has closed. What remains is just the truth. And the truth I can share freely.

That's what awareness does. That's what this entire book is built on.

So instead of sharing the hardest chapter, I want to share one of the tools that has been pivotal in my own healing and my life in general. A tool I come back to again and again with my clients. A tool that sounds almost too simple the first time you hear it.

The Traffic Light Game.

Here's what most people don't realize about intuition: it isn't just a feeling you either have or you don't. It has four distinct stages. And every one of those stages needs to be developed before you can truly live by your intuition and be guided by it consistently. Most people are only accessing one or two of those stages at best. Which is why intuition can feel unreliable, hard to hear, or easy to talk yourself out of.

The Traffic Light Game works on all four stages at once. In real time. With no pressure, no stakes, and no special conditions required. You just need a red light and a willingness to notice what comes. It's the kind of practice that feels playful at first. And then one day you realize it has quietly been rewiring the way you trust yourself. Not just at traffic lights. In your relationships, your decisions, your work, your life. Simple enough to start today. Deep enough to change the way you navigate everything.

Want to know more?

The four stages of intuition, how the Traffic Light Game develops each one, and the full toolkit for living a more aware and guided life are all inside the book.

Spiritual A.I. - Awareness and Intuition. Not Robots. Launching 28 June 2026. Available in Paperback, eBook and Audiobook.

Leonie Branson is the author of Spiritual AI - Awareness and Intuition. Not Robots. She works with people who are ready to stop looking outward and start trusting what's already within.