It is both a blessing and a curse, to feel everything so very deeply

Everything you experience hits you deep, raw and intense.

You're always tired.

You constantly absorb the emotions of those around you

leaving you mentally and energetically exhausted, even if you don't realize it's occuring.

You experience a wide variety of emotional states throughout the day,

followed by an overactive dream state at night, which offers little time for a mental relief.

As emotional radars, you instantly pick up on the vibes around you

and tend to gravitate the most towards those who are hurting - even if you're not in a good place yourself.

You can't help it, it is simply who you are. How you're wired.

Your intense instinct to help and soothe the pain of others
often results in a whole range of interpersonal and inner issues, which in the end leaves you completely drained.

Emptied.

You experience a brutal crash landing - then having to rebuild yourself from scratch.

... and so the history repeats itself.

The sad thing that many of us empaths don't realize,

is that often our desire to heal others is a disguised cry for help for our own healing.

Because many of us weren't taught how to value or nurture ourselves at a young age,

we tend to unconsciously seek out our own healing in the healing of others.

Empaths tend to care where and when the world doesn't

because we know all to well what it's like waiting for rescue, and no one shows up.

We have rescued ourselves so many times that we have become self taught in the art of compassion for those forgotten.