Why Do Empaths Struggle With Self-Love And Self-Care?

Why do so many empaths struggle with overwhelm, exhaustion, and burn-out.

Why are so many empaths life’s over givers, life’s rescuers, life’s martyrs.

The Empaths Struggle

So many empaths struggle to say NO, many find it difficult to create and maintain healthy energetic boundaries which can lead to all sorts of life, health, work, and business challenges. Especially issues around self-care,  self-love and self-compassion.

Their high level of empathy, ability to sense other people’s physical, mental, emotional even spiritual often leads to  strong tendencies towards over-caring, over-giving, and putting others’ needs before their own.

So much so that they are more likely to suffer from exhaustion, stress, compassion fatigue and burnout.

Especially when so many of you have strong archetypal traits of the martyr, fixer, healer, nurturer, and rescuer.

Why Do Many Empaths Struggle With Over Giving?

Empaths struggle with over-giving and caring because most empaths are in some way energetically aware and often immersed in the energy, pain, and drama of the people and things around them.

An empath will often find it difficult to differentiate their own needs, their own energy field from the energy field, and the emotions of others.

Common Empathic Traits

An empath will be very aware of other people’s emotions and needs in fact they will often absorb another person’s feelings and or pain. 

Empaths often need lots of time out, empaths are so sensitive to the energy and people around them they need lots of time out.

Empaths are often highly sensitive so are more sensitive to energy; not just people but their surroundings, places, items, the world, animals…

A highly empathic person will be highly intuitive and psychic. These important skills help keep the empath and highly sensitive empath healthy and happy.

The empathic child will often bring these gifts through very clearly but if those around don’t understand and support the child’s gifts, the child will often feel confused, ashamed and fearful which often leaves to an emotional and or energetic shut-down.

Empaths can be very misunderstood like the HSP they can be categorised as too weak, too sensitive, strange, or weird because of their heightened awareness of the un-known, the un-seen.

Empaths very easily lose their identity in relationships so can often avoid close or intimate relationship to protect themselves. They can find it extremely challenging to deal with controlling relationships, parents, work colleagues.

A lot of empaths are introverted but for those with more extroverted tendencies, it is often important for them to spend time alone or resting.

Many empaths end up with burn-out or other types of chronic health challenges due to poor management of their gifts.

Especially lack of boundaries, over-attachment to being the carer, supporter, helper, healer, nurturer. Most wounded healers are empaths.

Many empaths don’t just feel and absorb people’s emotional pain but physical pain.

Take the Empathic Test – Score if you are highly empathic or definitely an empath

 

 

How To Heal The Empaths Struggle

Become More Grounded  – Learn how to get fully centred, grounded, and in their body. Spend more time in nature, away from the chaos.  Unplug more from EMF and technology

Be More In The Moment –  Start to take one step, one moment at a time, and be less in the future, the past, or in the what if’s. Don’t let the monkey mind run or ruin your world.

Meditate –  Start meditating daily. Meditation helps you not only be in the moment, and be more grounded and centred but it increases self-awareness. It will help you become more of a witness when you are giving your energy or power away to others. Join my Online Meditation Class.

Heal Your Inner Child– Inner child work is a powerful way to heal incidents in your life’s timeline where you took on unhealthy thought patterns, trauma, and suppressed emotion that is causing blockages in your health and wellbeing.

Are you ready to turn your empathic gifts into your biggest strength?

Are you ready to nurture your spiritual and intuitive gifts?