What Breaks My Heart About What I Do?

Being an empath can be both a gift and a curse. 

Being an empath gives me the ability to truly feel and connect with people; to assist them in finding the words to describe their thoughts and feelings; and help them feel less alone in their experience.

It is also very common to experience secondary trauma - the effects of hearing first hand trauma experiences of another - when you are a therapist. 

Secondary trauma can lead to similar symptoms to PTSD, and it is vital that clinicians actively engage in self-care in their lives.

What breaks my heart about what I do?

Seeing how a person feels held back in their lives by the limiting beliefs they hold, often the same messages that were told to them as a child.

Hearing the distress when a person realizes they are repeating generational cycles when they swore they wouldn’t.

Seeing a person’s struggle with food and their body, desperately wanting recovery before becoming a parent, or before their child can develop a similar difficult relationship with food and their own body.

Hearing how a person’s past traumas and childhood wounds are still actively present in their day-to-day lives, and not knowing how to make constructive, sustainable changes.

So why do I do it? Stay tuned for tomorrow to hear about what lights me up about the work I do, and why this is a lifelong passion for me to do this work. 

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