In this personal, self‑help style monologue, the speaker shares how a 2014 brain accident altered her lifelong empathic ability. Before the accident she constantly absorbed the emotions of everyone around her, which felt overwhelming. After the injury she still perceives others’ feelings as mental images or information, but no longer physically feels them in her body. She describes the relief of this shift as a weight being lifted and introduces the concept of “caring without carrying,” meaning one can hold space for others without taking their emotional burdens onto oneself. She references an article she wrote for Best Holistic Life Magazine about this recovery, and recounts how a follower on Instagram, impressed by the piece, reached out to propose a joint podcast. She frames this outreach as an example of how positive energy and following one’s heart can manifest new opportunities, expressing excitement for what comes next.
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You never know when miracles or magic or manifestations are gonna happen. And I just want to offer you an idea, a concept, a construct, and an example from my own life. I wrote an article this month that appears in Best Holistic Life Magazine about being a recovering empath. And what does that mean? That means that I used to pick up all the feelings of all the people all the time, and that was a lot. It was a lot to deal with. But after my brain changed from a brain accident in 2014, I didn't feel that way anymore. I could see people's feelings, I could picture them, and I'd get information like a picture of someone's story or what they were dealing with, but I didn't feel it in my body anymore. And it was such a relief. I didn't know it until it happened that it was gone. For a hot second, I thought, there's something wrong with me. I was so used to picking up The feelings of other people. But in the interim, since that's happened, it's become so freeing. It's become like this weight has lifted. I don't have to feel someone's heartbreak or anxiety or difficulty in my own body. I can notice it, I can note it, it can be information, but it can be out there. What a huge difference that has made to my energy and my ability to show up for myself and for other people. I I can still understand feelings, I can still sense them, I just don't have to take them on like I did. So the article is about caring without carrying. So allowing your heart to hold space, but you don't have to throw them in the backpack on your shoulders that you carry. And one of the things that happened as a result of this article, I had someone reach out to me on Instagram who's got many, many followers and wants to do a joint— Podcast. Podcast, a joint recording, and I'm super excited. Could not have happened outside of he read that article, thought it was cool, and I'm so interested to see what happens next. And that's how energy manifests. If you put out that positive, if you follow your heart, if you follow the magic that you are, you never know where it's gonna go. And I can't wait to see what happens next.
