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I had never heard of an empath before I left my husband in 2022. The week after I moved out, I was plunged into an extreme ‘dark night of the soul’ and Spiritual Awakening, and somewhere along the way - I figured it out.
Google’s AI defines an empath as “someone who is highly attuned to the emotions and feelings of others, often experiencing them as if they were their own. They are not simply empathetic (understanding others’ feelings), but can deeply feel and even absorb the emotions of those around them. This can lead to a strong sense of intuition and a desire to help others, but it can also be overwhelming and cause emotional distress.”
I am an empath.
My children are all empaths.
One day, my daughter arrived home from school and I went from ecstatically happy one minute - to raging, yelling, and angry the next. That lasted almost five minutes before I stopped and went… “What the actual hell just happened?!”
Turns out, all those years of thinking I was an angry mom while living with my husband? I was picking up on his energy. I’d be fine all day, and then about 10-15 minutes before he got home (yes, really, you can pick up energy from a distance!), a switch would flip, and I’d be raging. I’d never recognized it for what it was until that day though.
Once I left him, the problem was solved… until my little girl turned into a pre-teen, emo, raging mess of hormones with a hate-on for life. To be honest, I don’t think I’ll ever know if that was her, or just her picking up energy at school and bringing it home. Either way, IT came home at the end of the day every day, and I had to learn pretty quickly how to protect my energy, but I also had to teach her how to clear hers (so she could be normal all evening). I got really good at clearing my own.
But one thing remained a problem for me: I’d get bored of the same energy clearing meditations on repeat. And I always figure that if I’m experiencing something, so is someone else. So I made a new one, just so you can change it up one more time if you get bored like I did!
Enjoy!
X
Bri
