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EMPATH'S
SURVIVAL GUIDE
Let's define an empath:
An empath is someone with a heightened ability to sense, feel, and transmute the emotions, energy, and even physical sensations of the people and environments around them.
While most people have empathy — the capacity to understand what another person is going through — an empath experiences empathy on a much deeper, often physical or intuitive level. Instead of just noticing another’s feelings, empaths can actually feel them as if they were their own. The problem empaths run into, is they often absorb the energy they are reading.
The key difference of having empathy vs. being an empath is simple; empathy is understanding how someone feels. An Empath actually feels it in their own body, mind, or emotions.
Quick Self-Check —
Answer Yes or No:
✅ I often feel drained after being in crowds, out in public, or around certain people.
✅ I can “just tell” when someone’s upset, even if they hide it.
✅ Loud noises, bright lights, or strong smells overwhelm me easily.
✅ People tend to open up to me quickly, even strangers.
✅ I sometimes confuse other people’s emotions with my own.
If you answered “yes” to 3 or more of these questions, welcome to the empath club! — this guide is for you.
🔑 DAILY ENERGETIC HYGIENE HABITS 🔑
These are your non-negotiables for staying balanced:
A Grounding Ritual
Grounding is essential to keeping balanced as an empathetic and there's science to back it! The negative ions earth emits help renew our field, the same way the electrical system is ground by wires into the earth. Our feet carry a negative charge, and the energy between the earth and us, when connected, is harmonious.
HERE'S A FEW QUICK WAY TO GROUND
One
🦶 Stand barefoot on the earth or floor.
🦶 Visualize roots growing from your feet deep into the earth.
🦶 Imagine releasing any tension down into the ground.
Two
🍫 Consider a piece of chocolate, cup of tea, or root vegetable to consume mindfully and with gratitude.
Three
👃 Always have a strong essential oil on you, like Egyptian musk, or jasmine, or peppermint. Smell when you feel overwhelmed.
A Shielding Practice
Shielding is a way to place intention into our field. If you can consider our magnetic field is a result of our electric thoughts, then you can understand that what we think directly impacts our field. So a visualization, while seemingly simple, is a powerful way to transmute and protect your field.
HERE'S A QUICK WAY TO SHIELD
🧿 Close your eyes, take a few long, deep breaths, and imagine a sphere of golden light surrounding you.
If that's hard, a red egg will also work.
🥚 Scan your body from head to toe and see the sphere or egg filtering out any existing sludge or dense energy.
📣 Speak intention into your field by asking your guides of light to enforce the shield of protection. Make sure to thank them!
A Detoxing Routine
Part of our energy is our physical body. The water in our body is what conducts our electricity. Our electricity is what produces our magnetism (or auric field) that being said, we have to keep our body clean, hydrated, and healthy to have the strongest field and know our own energy.
HERE'S A FEW SIMPLE WAYS TO DETOX
🛁 A bentonite clay and salt bath
🚰 Liquid or organic fruit-only fasts for short windows
(i.e. 12-24 hours).
**It's important to note Jess is not a doctor and you should consult a doctor before changing your diet**
🧘♀️🏃♀️ Breathwork and exercise. The exercise can be anything, like dance or yoga. Working out or breathing intentionally helps filter energy out of the field.
Healthy Boundaries
It's no secret that empaths struggle with people pleasing and co-dependency. Part of taking control of your clairsentient skill is developing healthy boundaries.
HERE ARE A FEW WAYS TO KEEP BOUNDARIES
👎 Saying no to things you don't want to do or feel you have to out of obligation. This seems simple, but for many empaths, this is a big problem. That cocktail hour after work, the baby shower of an acquaintance, do you really need to go. FOMO is real, hut so is JOMO.
Here are a couple ways to to say "no"
without feeling mean:
"I'd love to help, but I'm at capacity right now."
"I care about this and you, but today is booked for me."
"Let me get back to you on that."
⚡️ Emotional boundaries are key to discerning your energy from others. Asking, “Is this mine or theirs?” before reacting is important when deciding if a person is projecting or if you are. Disconnecting after intense conversations is important. You can do this by isolating yourself and swiping your hands down your arms and body, almost as if you were removing mud from yourself. After complete, take three deep breaths and say, "I disconnect from all energy that is not mine and send it back with love. I call all my power back to me."
⏰ Limiting time with energy vampires & regular reciprocity checks. It is a noble thing to be loyal and selfless, but often times selflessness comes with selfish motives. If you're hanging out with someone because it feels like charity or you feel bad for someone, are you really being selfless or are you selfishly trying to feel like a "good" person? On the contrary, sometimes we adore a friendship but notice it's often unbalanced. This is fine, and it's okay to love people without conditions, and give your time to them, but with limits.
You don’t have to dim your light to protect your energy — you just need the right tools.
Use these simple practices daily, and you’ll notice you have more clarity, energy, and peace.
Remember, being an empath is not a curse, it's a skill and ability to read energy.
If you’re ready to learn more about energy and how to read it, you might be interested in my
Intro to Tarot course.
