Its time to look within...

I was moved yesterday by a post on a group I follow asking how all the empaths in the group were doing.❤️

One because I work almost exclusively with empaths, but two... because what a beautiful time this is for empathic women to heal their inner child.

I thought I’d share a bit of my own journey here today to offer encouragement and hope to any other empaths who are struggling right now.

But first a side note::
We come here empathic.
Our families of origin typically didn’t allow for us to have our emotional needs met, because we learned at a young age that the emotional needs of other family members had to take presidence.

We learned to stuff our own emotions, dial them down, hide our gifts and talents , not shine too bright because we have to walk on eggshells emotionally to meet the needs of others. We became codependent in our relationships meaning.... how YOU FEEL is how I feel.... over time becoming extremely out of touch with our own emotions and bodies and becoming energy fields that have NO BOUNDARIES. Feeling used and empty and all over the place.

How this manifests in adulthood is we have incredible gifts to be able to sense energy and emotion in a room. We tend to have supernatural ability but that also scares us because at a young age we had to again... stuff it. We are typically anxious (which for me shows up as irritability and anger because those were “safe” emotions in childhood) and have no clue how to hold our own energy. We hide, we recluse, we shame spiral because our programming says “my emotions are too much” “something must be wrong with me”

I know this because in my home growing up i wasn’t allowed to be the emotional one. It just wasn’t our family dance. I became the peacemaker and held the emotion within. I became extremely anxious, and later on depressed. As an adult this manifested into being the most ultimate helper EVER. 😅.

I was a missionary for 10 years, took a vow of poverty basically to help others, pretty much abandoned my own family emotionally to meet the needs of those around me, and started and ran a successful nonprofit from the ground up for five years helping new moms.

From the outside people revered me. I was a woman to be praised within our community, would preach at our church, and was a community leader.

And then I got sick.🤔 my body shut down. Because it was TRYING TO GET MY ATTENTION.

I went septic almost two years ago and didn’t even notice it (THATS HOW OUT OF TOUCH I WAS WITH MY OWN BODY), and thank God I was pregnant bc of her I went to the hospital, and my life was spared.

I had such an intense recovery, and ended up being bedridden for a year. In that time I experienced an extreme spiritual awakening, and in my time of hiding realized subconsciously that ALL of my actions to help others were me projecting my childhood all around me.

All of the people I was trying to save and protect from pain were my little brother.
All of the people who were toxic but I kept in my circle of Influence so I could continue to walk on eggshells were my dad and older brother.
And all of the women I was trying to help emotionally who didn’t actually want to help themselves were my mom.

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

Talk about humbling.

So fast forward to now... after I did my own hypnotherapy, worked with my amazing coach Abi ... and after this incredible great awakening we’re all experiencing its brought me here to share that story with you today.

For you to know that the untethered feeling you have... is for a reason.

It’s time to heal the wounds. The inner child.
It’s time to show up for yourself emotionally.

YOU are the one who is going to help heal the earth.

But you have to heal yourself first.✨✨✨✨✨