It has taken me over two decades self-study to fully realize that I am an empath. An empowered empath? Not always. If I am not careful I can take on the weight of the world, feel the stress, anxiety, of sadness of others (especially my kids!), people please, and be left totally depleted and exhausted.
How we empathize is a deeper look into our capacity to understand and relate to what another person is experiencing.
When talking with my friend Wendy De Rosa on this months episode of SATIATE, I learned some clear distinctions between being overly empathic and being an empowered empath. The former, feeling overly sensitive, disconnected from our sense of self, and most often totally drained. The ladder, feeling what is true and reclaiming our intuitive power in doing so.
Similarly, when our empathic nature (especially as women) becomes overly empathic and out of balance, it can deeply effect our relationship with food.
Food can be the very ingredient to help us regulate our systems. Food grounds us, numbs our stress, and can appear as the primary regulator of the state of our nervous system. Our common, yet often destructive behaviors around our eating are an effort and means to regulate and activate the calming side of our nervous systems.
While empathy is a natural human response –– feeling the energy around us and connecting with another's emotions –– taking on these emotions as our own (feeling it as if it is happening to us) can be where problems arise.
Becoming an empowered empath is where we transform our empathic nature to become our greatest superpower. 💪🏾
Wendy De Rosa is an international intuitive energy healer, speaker, teacher, and author. She is the founder of The School of Intuitive Studies and the renowned Intuitive Healer Training Program & Certification. Wendy is a leading faculty member of The Shift Network with more than 100,000 people attending her live events and programs. And, just last week, Wendy was featured on the Dear Gabby Podcast, hosted by Gabrielle Bernstein.
Her work and her new book, Becoming An Empowered Empath ~ How To Clear Energy, Set Boundaries, and Embody Your Intuition are much needed in our world today.
If you feel consumed with the state of the world, with others in your life, or even with dynamics in your very own home, this episode is for you!
Listen and Hear:
Wendy's incredible (and bumpy) journey that led her shift her biggest challenge into her greatest gift
How to go from being overly empathic to becoming an empowered empath
The impact of being overly empathic on your eating and your health
Detoxifying techniques to nurture your subtle energy body, so you can turn your oversensitivity into powerful intuition
Some simple practices you can do to help you feel more grounded in your intuitive nature
MEET WENDY DE ROSA:
Wendy De Rosa is an international intuitive energy healer, speaker, teacher, and author. She offers education and training programs for developing intuition, spiritual growth, energy healing and personal transformation to thousands of people from all over the world wanting to develop their intuition and experience personal transformation.
She is the founder of The School of Intuitive Studies and the renowned Intuitive Healer Training Program & Certification. Wendy is a leading faculty member of The Shift Network with more than 100,000 people attending her live events and programs. She has been a featured teacher on the MindValley spiritual growth channel Soulvana and has appeared on CBS News/Better Connecticut. She also hosts her own podcast called the “Wendy De Rosa Sessions”.
She is a published author with her newest title out now, Becoming an Empowered Empath: How to Clear Energy, Set Boundaries & Embody Your Intuitive Powers, New World Library. Her other titles include her bestselling Energy Healing Through the Chakras: A Guide to Self-Healing, and Expanding Your Heart: Awakening through Four Stages of a Spiritual Opening. She is also a contributing author to Bouncing Back: Thriving in Changing Times with Wayne Dyer, Bryan Tracy, John Assaraf and other leaders in personal growth. For more information visit: www.schoolofintuitivestudies.com and https://wendyderosa.com/
Wendy is also a guest teacher in the upcoming Make Peace With Your Plate Women's Circles. I can't wait to share her wisdom (as well as the wisdom of the other incredible guest teachers) with this beautiful circle of women coming together.
☮️ If you want to go reveal your greatest embodied feminine power and wisdom within your eating (and living), consider joining me in the new Make Peace With Your Plate Women's Circles.
We start October 17th!
These circles are here to guide you step-by-step in cultivating a soul-centered relationship with food and your body.
Be well friends,
