Healer-
Heal Thyself.
…but what if you don’t actually know what’s wrong?
All you know for sure is you keep getting all these “signals” and “signs” that there is something definitely not right… !
Maybe part of what has happened over the years-
With de-stigmatizing mental health (which is good by the way)
Is in doing so-
There was a vacuum created for “not-right-edness”
Any perceived failure or lacking or impulsiveness-
Can be labelled as wrong and therefore in need of fixing.
And if “I” need fixing,
Then by default that means I am not okay.
I am wrong.
By making it safe to talk about what’s wrong-
We actually have a whole mindset being actively created that
Something
Someone
Maybe everything and everyone…
Needs fixing and healing.
The general overall feeling in the air is that if anyone perceives us as weird, wrong or broken-
There’s an app for that.
Self-help manual and support group.
Personality types-
Outline this one type of personality in particular that by nature (or genetics)
Overthinks, tries to fix things and is highly sensitive.
They’ve even done studies on these-
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Both collectively and separate from one another.
But the mix bag gets all the pros and cons of the combined personality type.
So if there is say…
20% of the population that is highly sensitive.
And of those 20%-
Half have the overthinking and problem-solving tendencies…
Well, that ends up being roughly (percentages are not exact) 1 in every 100 who is highly sensitive, overthinking and problem solving oriented…..
Place those people in an environment where they are constantly told something is wrong-
And the wrong something is likely them….
What happens?
I once thought it was great-
People are talking openly about empathy and empaths-
The world was not so much like that when I was growing up-
So the sense of “knowing” I could NOT talk about it was concrete.
Yet my excitement about it dwindled over time-
Because I quickly realized that people still don’t want to believe that some people feel and sense things that they do not.
Labels and names were put around it-
And with the “narcissist” trend right on its’ heels-
The idea of Light empaths and Dark empaths emerged-
And backseat diagnoses quickly decide on your behalf-
Which one YOU must be….according to their opinion.
….and a sensitive knows which way you sway by the curl of the lip and the energy shift.
No one actually needs to say it at all.
So how many natural healers out there…
Are actively trying to heal themselves because they have allowed the world to echo back to them-
How broken they must be?
-E
