Are you an Empath?
Are you an Empath?
I used to think I was the most sensitive person in the world! Like an alien living amongst humans! I seemed to feel so different to other people deep down inside, and people so rarely understood me it seemed. I would often get remarks that either flat out told me I was being ‘too sensitive’, or implying quite hurtfully I might add, that perhaps, at my age, I should have outgrown this odd behaviour!
I was almost ridiculed by others, and sometimes even by people quite close to me, because I didn’t want to watch needless violence on TV or movies, or would avoid the news on the off chance a tragic headline popped up and then haunted me for weeks on end! These people, I realised, weren’t meaning to be hurtful, they just couldn’t understand what it was like to be me!
I found as time moved on, the ones I loved and those that really loved me, learnt to just adapt to my little ‘foibles’. They knew that if there was a tragic story in the local paper or circulating around the town, they had to hide it from me! They realised that they to ‘pre-check’ any movies out for extreme violence, or animal or child abuse before even thinking about recommending them to me. My children especially adapted well to this, and some have inherited some similar traits, although these are often unique to the individual in how they present.
It was from my own journey of awakening to my own spirituality in my 30’s, and through it my own healing, that I began to realise just HOW empathic I had always been. This empathy, which I had previously perceived as neuroticism, a form of weakness and a form of stupidity that I needed to ‘grow out of’, was in fact, just who I was! It was part of intrinsic make up, spiritual journey and life path. Not only that, I began to understand that my sensitivity was the very reason that I could read a room so well, know what to say to people at just the right time, know how to touch or heal people within my holistic therapy practice, and also why I had been feeling soooo much all around me and from so many areas of my life since I was just a young child! The more I learnt to develop my intuitive, deep ‘feeling’, and the more I researched my own sensitivity, the more I began to understand and better manage it. It made me more self-aware, and then more compassionate with myself. Instead of telling myself I was weak and ‘less than’, I realised I was just ‘sensitive’, and that actually, there were some perks to it! 🙂 I challenged my beliefs about myself and was able to change how I perceived my deep level of sensitivity.
Do you feel YOU could be an empath or a highly sensitive person (HSP)?
Do you struggle in crowded places, or big groups of people? Do you struggle deeply to see or hear about suffering of any kind? Does the news frequently upset or bother you? Do you struggle with the low moods of other people? There is a full empath quiz on my workshop, but if you answered yes to a few of these, then you could be an empath!
Help for Empaths
I decided to write my workshop ‘Energetic Protection and Empowerment for Empaths and Sensitives’ after many years as a holistic therapist, and right before I officially stepped into my work as a psychic medium. The more I understood about myself, the more I noticed how many people there were, just like me! And these people were often dealing with anxiety and even depression, because of not only their potentially problematic pasts, but their own struggles to cope in the world they live in. I began to take what I had already learned about energetic protection from my own spiritual development practices and teachers, and read lots of books on how to help myself and other people. I eventually felt a calling to set this all to paper and before I knew it, the universe had supplied me with my first two groups of willing Empaths and HSPs!
Not only does this workshop explain the behaviours of the empath, but also WHY they’re there and how they can challenge and change them.
N.B. For example, did you know extra weight, particularly around ‘the middle’ is an unconscious protective measure?!
In addition to that, my workshop teaches healthier boundaries as well as basic exercises and visualisation techniques that allow your energy to remain your own and to deflect anything unwanted from other people. Even those we love!
As empaths, we need all the help we can get and we need as many tools in our arsenal as we can gather, so don’t hesitate to get in touch about this workshop (workshop link) or with any other questions. I often run day classes from Cirencester, Gloucestershire UK, but I also have the option to send it as a pdf or run workshops online.
And if you think your sensitivity is extended to the spirit world or the psychic, then perhaps book a reading with me or consider some development moving forward.
Don’t suffer in silence, there are many of us out there, and each generation brings with it more open, and more spiritually-aware individuals, each often with an innate and unique level of sensitivity. Sensitivity invariably brings special gifts and it’s the empaths that will change the world. Love and light. Min