HAPPY BIRTHDAY OPRAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOPE ITS A WONDERFUL DAY!

It's Oprah's birthday? Happy Birthday Oprah!

Hope I'm home in time to see this show.... don't know if this relates to what the discussion will be about, but.....

My sister once told me about her "paranoia" after seeing someone in a parking lot that she had a "bad" feeling about. Nothing happened (Thank God!) and her uneasiness came solely from her gut reaction. She had an internal dialogue about what to do if the man approached her because she didn't want to be rude or "hurt his feelings".

If your gut is telling you something - remove yourself immediately from the situation/person....

I'd rather hurt someone's feelings and live to tell about it then risk possible, unspeakable consequences.

Hi all! Is today's show a repeat? Anyone know?

I know all about this shows topic. I spent years testing my instinct or intuition. Testing it in little ways....trying to tell when the phone will ring...that sort of thing. 9 times out of 10 I was correct. I can't say for sure if my instincts were correct on the following example, the only thing I know for sure is that nothing happened to me, and that's all the proof I need. I used to live in Ottawa Ontario, and I routinely walked home alone around midnight. I always walked the same route...which was the most populated and lit areas. One night however, something told me to change my route. Instead of walking on the well lit sidewalk, I had the feeling I should make my way home through the park. My mom always told me never to walk alone in a dark park....but something was telling me I should. So I did. With no one around, and no lights, I was surprisingly calm and at ease. I made it home without incident........which I was happy to have done. That's my survival story....not as thrilling as some of the guests on today's show, but I'm perfectly happy with the low dramatics of the situation.

PS HAPPY BIRTHDAY OPRAH!!!!!

Laurie in NS

I wish I had listen to my fear. I was having surgery, I have had surgeries before, and I told my husband I wanted to run screaming from the hospital. I was having, I believe, a panic attack. I didn't listen to my fear. I was crying when they knocked me out for surgery. I have always gone through with what I start, so I felt I shouldn't back out of the surgery. Unfortunately, I should have listened to my fear. Even through I had the surgery at Good Sam hospital in Downers Grove, I don't feel the doctor had to ability to do the surgery he was doing on me. I am now paying for his ego being bigger then his ability. Since the surgery he did I now have damage that is not repairable. I wished more than anything I had walked out. I have thought of Oprah when I have talked to my friends about it. I told them that Oprah says you get that feeling and you should listen to it. I will listen to it and act accordingly from now on!

This show has been so amazing for me to watch. I was dating a man who claimed to have become a Christian recently, and he befriended my brother, which is how we met. He was charming, or USED Charming on me After he left, i confessed to my parents that I had been "bad" and had sex with him, and there was a possibility i could be pregnant. At first my Mother was horrified with me, (I had grown up in a strict Christian home and had personal high morals for myself, This kind of relationship was VERY out of character for me) So, i told my Mom, she got mad, then sat down and asked my what had happened. As i described my experiences, things like "I don;t know how we got to that point" or "I did say no, but he didn't hear me" " I didn't want to do it, but he was so angry about that" she got the "Huh" feeling in her gut, and took me to a doctor. It was determined through my testimony, and medical exam, that he had been drugging me and raping me for about a month. There was no phisical evidence, there was nothing I could point to and say "there is proof". This man was arrested a while later for serving alcohol to minors, and evading the police, resulting in a high speed chase and accident. He is now convicted of Aggrivated Domestic abuse? I think, we have been keeping up to date with his criminal record. I found out stories about him after he had left, how he had dealt drugs, how one person had died from the drugs he gave them, how he had escaped from prison, how he lied to his Parole Officer. I talked to the PO, told him my story, and he was very sad for me that we had no evidence. My Dad never really liked him, had a gut feeling to keep the guy away. He tried to talk himself out of those feeling not wanting to "judge someone" for a sketchy past. My mother got a funny feeling in her gut everytime we left the house together. One time, I remember this like it was yesterday, I was in my car, he was sitting on the ground next to me, and i looked in the rear view mirror, and i saw a look on his face that i can only describe as pure evil. I felt as if i was staring at the devil. I did NOTHING about it! Now, here is the kicker, ever since, i feel funny telling my story, i feel like a "fake rape victim" like maybe it didn't happen that way, and i just copped out of being a bad girl. I have a hard time embracing it, because i had no evidence, or conviction, or "proof". This episode has shown me that my proof is the "huh"! The thing we all ignored all that time. The feeling that we should have listened to! THAT is how i KNOW! I am so grateful for the knowledge! I hope Oprah gets many notes like this, and that many people will start listening to the GUT!

God Bless you Oprah, Happy Birthday dear.