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New year, new you? Only if you do this FIRST!


Empaths | IF You DON’T Do This ONE Thing Setting Boundaries Will Be HARD



Happy New Year!

What is your word for 2023?

I usually like to pick a word (or two! Or three!) to guide me forward throughout the year. A few words make it simple to come back to when the excitement of new beginnings starts to fade and good ol’ regular life continues to go off the rails. (As it usually does come February. Or maybe even by the tail end of January. Or perhaps already by the second week of January!)

This year I have a statement as my guiding light and I talk about it in this week’s video.

If you are reading this, then you too are a big-hearted empath who feels the pain of others and would do anything to lessen that pain. And because of this gift/curse, you feel like it is your job to care-take everyone around you, jumping in to help – or perhaps even save – those that you love.

This is a beautiful gift…but only if you DO THIS FIRST!

If you fail to claim this truth – and remind yourself over and over again – then setting boundaries will always be difficult and that beautiful gift of yours will indeed become a curse.

I have spent the last decade trying to undo the damage caused by this curse; annihilating myself for the sake of others; dimming my light because who am I to shine; questioning everything because how dare I listen to what feels true for me.

It is my life’s work to be a guide for others to plug back into the wisdom that lays dormant inside them; the wisdom that is already there, just waiting to be heard.

But we cannot hear what is drowned out by the noise of the outside world – or the noise within our own heads that, like a sponge, has soaked up a lifetime’s worth of rules, limitations, judgements and criticisms from that outside world.

So join me in making 2023 the year of YOU! Not because you are selfish. Not because you don’t care about anyone else. But because you recognize that the only way to truly take care of others, is to take care of yourself first.

Where to begin with such an overwhelming endeavour? Watch this video to point you in the right direction.

So much love,
Carolyn