Empowered Empaths

Breaking Outdated Patterns and Embodying Your Inner Power

“I am an empath” was not something you heard, let alone discussed, in years past. Yet these days, it is acknowledged more frequently in all settings and cultures. However, I’ve noticed that more often, when someone speaks it to me, there is a tone of disdain. They imply that is a handicap, a weakness, or something that is burdensome. But this is all a façade of the ego-mind because an empowered empath is a person with superpowers!

To begin strengthening yourself as an empath, it’s important to understand what truly holds you back. What keeps you trapped in a state of over-sensitivity? What keeps you shrinking, hiding, or doubting your value?

Ask yourself the following questions that can help reveal where you may be repressing your true self in order to fit in, stay small, or avoid rejection. And please realize, these patterns aren’t flaws - they are learned survival strategies. And they have worked for you thus far. But with a small adjustment in your focus and attention, the truth of who you are can finally be expressed. And once you bring awareness to them, you can begin releasing them and have a deeper satisfaction in your life.

Social Anxiety & Avoidance Patterns

∞ Do you say things you don’t mean around certain people just to fit in? When you do that, you’re repressing who you are.

∞ Do you keep your thoughts to yourself during group conversations because you assume your opinions are less valuable than everyone else’s?

∞ Do you blurt out an idea and then immediately retract it - by joking, saying “I didn’t mean that,” or apologizing? This happens when you believe your contributions don’t matter.

∞ Do you hide in the corner at social events?

∞ Do you hold back questions because you assume they’re “dumb”?

∞ Do you want connection, but panic at the thought of stepping forward because you believe other people are more important?

∞ Do you leave events early because being around too many people overwhelms you?

∞ Do you decline invitations altogether because you can’t bear the pressure of showing up?

These are common empath patterns. Many empaths feel awkward in groups or fear they have little to contribute. Some are extroverted, but a large percentage are introverted or appear introverted because of chronic nervous-system activation.

If you answered “yes” to many of these, you might be an empath who lives in the shadows - one who needs gentle practice in building confidence and expanding your inner energy.

BUT... Interacting with others in this way is literally telling your body its worth is less than everyone else.

Why Empaths Need a Strong Ego

Empaths typically assume that a strong ego is “bad,” when in truth a strong ego is simply a strong, empowered sense of their personality-self.

It is absolutely okay and necessary for empaths to have a big ego. Empaths with expanded egos go on to create conscious, successful businesses, make a difference in their communities, and elevate the world. We want empaths to have money, abundance, influence, and success because they are the ones who use it with integrity - for the good of all concerned.

The current cultural structures actually tend to support narcissistic personalities rising into power, but not empaths. This is why reclaiming your ego, energy, and confidence is essential. It is activism at the soul level. And remember, as you do for yourself, you do for the collective, too.

Whether you answered yes or no to the earlier questions, remember: every empath benefits from learning to become an empowered empath. If you answered “no” to all of them, you may already be empowered. Or, simply stated, you are not an empath. Either way is fine, but if notice you are drawn to this topic and interested in self-discovery work, chances are you are.

Empowered empaths often thrive as health care workers, therapists, energy healers, or guides. When disempowered, they can serve well but burn out easily. When empowered, they still serve but now it is from a foundation of strong self-care, boundaries, and self-worth. They no longer sacrifice themselves in the process because their efforts stem from their core values and their passion and purpose is clearly identified and embodied.

Listening to Your Inner Voice

Every one of us has a purpose. And the only way to tune into that purpose is by quieting the external noise and reconnecting with your inner voice.

We live in a world with constant noise from the news cycles, social media, and mainstream narratives. Empaths can feel drowned in this barrage because they naturally give more value to outside voices than to their own. Isolation and depressive periods may be a frequent occurrence due to weakened personal boundaries and fortification.

If this sounds familiar, here is the secret break-in code to revealing your own empowerment:

• The more you love yourself, the more you trust your intuition.

• The more you trust yourself, the more you expand your energy.

• When your energy (field) is in harmony with the reality you WANT to exist within, the Universe conspires on your behalf and evidence of this alignment reveals itself to you as synchronicities.

Focusing more on yourself is NOT selfish. Expanding your ego isn’t arrogance; it’s expanding your energetic field. It’s reclaiming sovereignty. When you remember your sovereignty, everything starts to makes sense again. Funnily enough, those in your circle of influence can and often will begin to change as a result of your vibrational state changing – even without conversation as to the re-balancing of your body/mind.

How Childhood Shapes Sensitivity

Most strong empaths were born with one or more heightened sensitivities. To people, places, textures, sounds, aromas… or all of those things. But even those with less dominant empathy at birth were often shaped by life experiences: sadly, they are those which chipped away at their natural ability to feel, or events which required survival methods to cope that resulted in purposefully closing oneself off from exposure to uncomfortable situations.

Highly sensitive children are more vulnerable to trauma. For some, (and admittedly, myself) repressed emotions or self-abandonment eventually manifested as physical illness. For others, repressed sensitivity may emerge as externalized harm like violence, crime, or other destructive behavior. The difference is not in worth, but in how trauma is expressed.

Looking back at your childhood helps you understand your “marinade”, meaning, the emotional environment that shaped your empath nature. A child under the age of seven will absorb the information in its environment as elements of its own identity.

For some, childhood included cultural or familial devaluation. Being born into an environment where your existence felt disappointing creates an internal narrative of “I am not enough.” When one or both parents are absent from a child’s life this establishes a similar internalized belief. There are many, many more examples, but the common thread is often a deep-seeded belief that I am not worthy of “x, y, z”. This early imprinting can shape an empath’s entire life until it is consciously unlearned.

Unlearning Old Beliefs and Returning to Your True Self

After their near-death experiences, 4,000 people were studied by Dr. Jeffrey Long M.D. These people describe leaving behind all cultural beliefs, identity structures, and trauma - returning to a state of pure soul consciousness. They experienced a love – a belonging and worthiness – that transcended anything they could describe or relate to another person. From that vantage point, they realized their power, wholeness, and eternal nature of life.

Their realizations led to the understanding that the journey is not about learning more or self-improving.

The Real Journey is About Unlearning

This means letting go of everything you are not.
Releasing the layers of standards and beliefs placed on you by culture, trauma, and conditioning.

Michelangelo said that when he sculpted angels from marble, he simply chipped away everything that was not the angel. News flash: You are the angel!

Empowering yourself is not about adding anything to you to make you better. It is about freeing your true essence from everything that has obscured it!

Meditation for Embracing Your Sensitivity

Record your voice stating affirmations and listen to it daily. If done in a state of honesty and with integrity, it will strengthen your connection to your true self:

I see my sensitivity as my strength and my superpower.
It is the greatest truth of who I am.
I love and accept myself fully.
I no longer need anyone else’s approval to embrace my sensitive nature.
I no longer abandon myself or feel ashamed for who I am.

I am enough.

I value myself first and when my cup is full the goodness may overflow to others.
My sensitivity serves a greater purpose.
My soul chose this life with Divine wisdom.
Sensitivity is a gift, and I am privileged to embody it.

When I am consciously aware and allow this sensitivity to speak through me, my body, mind, and spirit are aligned with my greater purpose.

In alignment, I feel good.

Your empath nature is not a flaw - it is your gift. Sensitive people are the future.
You are the ones who will lead civilization into deeper compassion, intuitive connection, and soul-centered decision-making.

You are the ones who understand that feeding the world matters more than fighting it.
You are the ones who know that love is more powerful than violence.
You are the ones capable of teaching others through embodiment and example.

This is why expanding your energy body – which includes your ego, your voice, your presence - is absolutely essential. The world needs YOU. Visible, powerful, and unafraid to speak your truth.

I love you!