“Burnout grows in a cycle of exhaustion, cynicism and lack of civility. Basically, burnout is bad management” ~ Unknown Burnout feels like a slow death. It steals your enjoyment for life, wrecks your health on every level, and turns your once highly functioning brain into scrambled eggs, leaving you with mental fog and confusion. You […]
Love Yourself Through. Why Empathy Starts With You.
If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another ~ Buddha Empathy. It’s a bit of a buzzword at the moment and for all the right reasons. Empathy is emotional intelligence. To empathise is to put yourself in the shoes of another, to see through their eyes and convey that understanding. The ability to […]
Empath -v- Empathic. What’s The Difference?
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. We can all sense a mysterious connection to one another ~ Meryl Streep If you have found your way to this post, then you probably suspect or know that you are an empath. You will have experienced the difficulty of holding […]
How To Unlock Your Intuition.
There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any […]
Intuition: If It Feels Off. It’s Off.
Always, always trust your first gut instinct. If you genuinely feel in your heart and soul that something is wrong, it usually is. I’m hard-wired to read the energy of the people, situations and the places around me. My intuition antennae, my inner GPS, is firmly switched on. My abilities developed during childhood, so using […]
Forget Codependency. I Needed My Freedom.
In the early part of 2011, I was battling burnout as a result of my workaholic habits. As a lawyer on a never-ending clock, I’d finally reached the point where I understood that my behaviour was dysfunctional, and I needed to change my ways. For a long time, I had my eye on a retreat […]
Do You Feel Guilty For Taking Care Of You?
Many empaths experience high levels of “guilt.” Not because they have wronged someone or acted terribly. They feel guilty for wanting to meet their own desires and needs. Guilt is a draining emotion that sits at the bottom of the stomach like a dead weight. Guilt doesn’t burn like anger or hurt like shame, but […]
8 Ways To Cleanse & Protect Against Negative Energy.
As we awaken to the reality that we are more than skin and bone, separated by the edges of our physical self, and all interconnected by the energy we hold within, the ability to cleanse and protect against any negative energy that we may come into contact with is essential to our health and well-being. […]
Introducing The Empath.
An empath is highly developed in sensing the emotions/energy of others. They feel everything in their environment: the people they connect with, the places they visit. As their intuition is so highly developed, they are less likely to apply logic to their feelings. They are truly gifted. Empaths are some of the most generous, big-hearted […]