Do you often find yourself being taken advantage of? Does setting boundaries feel selfish, confusing or overly harsh to you? Are you unsure of how to even set boundaries in your life?
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Answer the questions below with a simple yes or no. Count how many yes’s you have at the end and tally up your score.
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I want to get to know you. It’s so difficult to develop relationships on the internet. But as our world moves more and more in that direction, we need to get better at it. One way for us to do this is via email. Be my pen pal? I will send you emails every…
Read MoreThis week has been a giant week. Most weeks when I write to you, I feel complete and clear about what I want to share, but this is not one of those weeks, because like everyone else, I’m still figuring this shit out too. You may or may not have felt the crazy heavy energy…
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Last week I was at a training that focused on using our deepest wounds as our gift to the world, and much of this article comes from my learnings there. While a lot of this I haven’t yet integrated into myself, I thought it deeply important to share with all of you. As empaths, we…
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Every human on this earth has needs. Maslow developed a whole hierarchy of them. We have a need for a certain amount of space in relationships, for emotional validation, for how we want to be treated and loved. We have a need to feel expressed, heard, understood by another and physically and emotionally free. Empaths…
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Last week, in the Enlightened Empathy Facebook group, we upped the stakes a little with our empath discussion question. The question was asked, “when it comes to social justice, should we ever empathize with the oppressor?” It was such a fascinating discussion, I want to post some of the responses here. But first, a Public Service Announcement:…
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Projection is something that all empaths need to learn about. Many people argue all empathy is projection. Because we can never truly feel another person’s feelings, we can only feel our version of their feelings. Regardless of what we believe about empathy, understanding the role of projection is vital for every empath. What is psychological projection?…
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Our relationships can be beautiful or a mess, but one thing is for sure—we can’t get through life without engaging in them. It wasn’t until I experienced an unhealthy relationship that I realized the extent of its destruction. It wasn’t until I experienced a beautiful relationship that I realized how deeply it could change me for…
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Last week in the Enlightened Empathy community, we had an awesome conversation about empaths and depression. One of our community members, Aaron, shared the most vulnerable, deep, profound and amazing story about his experience. It made me cry, obviously. With his approval, I wanted to share it with you. It’s a must read for anyone…
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In order to get anywhere in life, first, we have to understand exactly where we are. And that’s easier said than done because most of the time we either want to skip right ahead or avoid what’s true for us all together. I call it life reconnaissance and I like to do it every month—stop…
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I’ve been on a conscious journey as an empath towards wholeness for around five years now. At first, I dealt with all the big things—the traumas and triggers and healing the wounds of the past. Only recently have I dropped into the more subtle layers of unraveling my inner world and what I’ve found is…
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To truly meet ourselves is a beautiful thing. It’s when we can acknowledge our whole selves fully—our shadow and our light, our layers of conscious and unconscious thoughts and behavior, our compulsions, habits, traumas, crutches, needs, desires, fantasies—it’s when we have awareness of all these in ourselves and can meet (and love) our truth without running…
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