The Vital Spirit

01/19/2025

Airline safety isn't just for oxygen masks on airplanes, it is essential everywhere in every setting. If you are not ok, you can't help anyone else. Prioritize your health, all of it--mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual.

01/19/2025

The time has come to leave Facebook. I am other places. I will put links in the comments. I hope you will follow me on one of those other platforms, or you can sign up for my weekly newsletter. https://thevitalspirit.net/join-community/

01/18/2025

Weekly celebration post highlighting ways being an empath is fantastic.

Empaths and animals share an outlook, they understand the interconnectedness of all life. Animals are instinctively drawn to empaths--pets and wild alike. They notice empaths and move closer or watch them.

01/17/2025

Quantum Alignment releases or shifts patterns of behavior and energy expressions that you are no longer in alignment with so you can embody your authentic nature and move through challenges with grace and authenticity.

To learn more or schedule click here https://thevitalspirit.net/alignment/ or the link in the bio and click on Quantum Alignment.

01/15/2025

Are you an entrepreneur who wants to make the leap to seeing clients and building a business? Many healers find themselves stuck as they decide to start a business. If any of these sound familiar you are an ideal candidate for Empathic Edge.

* You have a calling and desire but feel overwhelmed with how to start.
* You healed through the very modalities that you are now offering to others.
* You are qualified to offer the services. You have studied and practiced and know you have the skill/expertise (even if you have doubts or worries).
* You know what you are doing and believe in the services you are offering, AND sometimes you still feel like an imposter.
* You have taken lots of free webinars for expensive marketing or business coaching programs. They make a lot of promises, but none of them feel good to you. It is important to you that your business practices align with your values and ethics.
* You are overwhelmed at the idea of being seen as a healer and stepping out of the shadows with work that means so much to you.
* You want your work to make a difference in the world.

We're beginning January 29th. There is still time to join. Click the link in the bio or https://thevitalspirit.net/business-mentoring-for-healers/

01/14/2025

Owning a business is personal development work on overdrive. I support business owners in their growing edge and their businesses, too. I work with empaths and empathic business owners who want to balance their self-development while growing their business. Click the link for Empathic Edge in the bio for more information.⠀⠀
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01/12/2025

Working steadily towards sharpening your natural skills and talents opens the door for opportunities that showcase those talents and skills. Master your talents and skills. ⠀

01/07/2025

Empaths, Mental Health, and Spiritual Awakenings

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” ~ Swami Vivekananda

The Overlap between Empathic Sensitivities, Mental Illness, and Spiritual Awakening
After 11 years of listening to empaths share their stories about being an empath, I now see there can be a connection between empathic sensitivities and mental breakdowns or illness. There are many stories of empaths being falsely diagnosed with various mental disorders based on the field of psychiatry’s limited understanding of sensory sensitivity.

I have also experienced a number of clients who, either in their past or while we have been working together, went through a mental health episode that in some cases led to a mental breakdown or a mental health diagnosis. I have learned some things from these experiences and see mental health from a very different perspective than I did before.

Here are a few things I have learned.

1. Mental Illnesses fluctuate over a lifetime and are in fact neurodivergence
A variety of factors affect the onset, severity, and remission of mental crises. Everyone’s breaking point is different and during acute mental health episodes, psychiatric medication is necessary and useful for allowing the client to stabilize and regulate their emotions and mental health symptoms such as mania or compulsive behaviors.

There are a family of diagnoses that in the past have fallen under mental health disorders or learning disabilities that are now classified as neurodivergence; autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, dyslexia, epilepsy, bipolar, and borderline personality disorder, to name a few.

I would classify being an empath or sensitive as neurodivergence. Neurodivergence is the term for when someone’s brain processes, learns, and/or behaves differently from what is considered “typical.” Scientists used to consider these a problem or abnormal. They have now come to understand that neurodivergence can have many benefits.

Continue Reading...click the link in the bio

01/06/2025

Empaths, Mental Health, and Spiritual Awakenings

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” ~ Swami Vivekananda

The Overlap between Empathic Sensitivities, Mental Illness, and Spiritual Awakening
After 11 years of listening to empaths share their stories about being an empath, I now see there can be a connection between empathic sensitivities and mental breakdowns or illness. There are many stories of empaths being falsely diagnosed with various mental disorders based on the field of psychiatry’s limited understanding of sensory sensitivity.

I have also experienced a number of clients who, either in their past or while we have been working together, went through a mental health episode that in some cases led to a mental breakdown or a mental health diagnosis. I have learned some things from these experiences and see mental health from a very different perspective than I did before.

Here are a few things I have learned.

1. Mental Illnesses fluctuate over a lifetime and are in fact neurodivergence
A variety of factors affect the onset, severity, and remission of mental crises. Everyone’s breaking point is different and during acute mental health episodes, psychiatric medication is necessary and useful for allowing the client to stabilize and regulate their emotions and mental health symptoms such as mania or compulsive behaviors.

There are a family of diagnoses that in the past have fallen under mental health disorders or learning disabilities that are now classified as neurodivergence; autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, dyslexia, epilepsy, bipolar, and borderline personality disorder to name a few.

I would classify being an empath or sensitive as neurodivergence. Neurodivergence is the term for when someone’s brain processes, learns, and/or behaves differently from what is considered “typical.” Scientists used to consider these a problem or abnormal. They have now come to understand that neurodivergence can have many benefits.

Continue Reading...

On Spiritual Awakening: “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” ~ Swami Vivekananda

01/05/2025

Being highly sensitive in a society that is loud, rough, and highly competitive causes a good deal of pain.

Empaths don't have the ability to dissociate from their feelings like the majority of human on the planet.

Dissociating from emotions is required to be of this world. It is what makes empaths feel like outsiders or aliens and your sensitivity, your tender feelings, feel uncomfortable and disorienting to people who have blocked out their own emotional response to injustice and hate.

That discomfort causes the majority to belittle and ostracize empaths, to protect them from their true feelings about injustice and hate.

To empaths, I say, keep speaking up and showing up with your tender feelings and your crusade for truth and justice.

01/04/2025

🌟I believe that empaths and indigos are here to help humans evolve into more heart-centered beings. 🌟

Along the way, there has been a struggle with fitting into a world you are here to change. That has caused walls to be built or energetic armor to be donned to protect your heart from breaking over and over again.

However, in order to build that new world, we have to take down those walls and remove the armor. The payoff is connection.

Connecting to yourself, your family (when it is healthy to do so), and your community. The path itself will vary dramatically among empaths and indigos but the core thread is connection.

Deeply authentic and truthful connection that frees your Spirit and lightens your heart. You are building the home you never found growing up.

It isn't possible to do this when you are protected and fearful. It is necessary to heal those wounds and mend your heart.

Healing your wounds leads to the work we came to do. The work that is uniquely yours, that builds a world where everyone has a place to thrive, regardless of sensitivities, abilities, or interests. A world that values deep connection.

Mentoring packages are designed to facilitate all stages of this work from healing the places that hold us back to exploring the work you want to do in your life to how to support your personal spiritual path.

​​Learn more https://thevitalspirit.net/mentoring/ or click the link in the bio

01/03/2025

💫 It can take time to be ready to claim the empath archetype. After all, there is a lot to explore, own, and heal once you decide to become a conscious empath. A lot of changes will be incorporated into your life and in order to change like that you often need some reassurance that this undertaking in necessary. Here is your mini checklist for readiness. 💫

If you can relate, explore the Empath Apprenticeship and sign up for a free 30 minute consultation. https://thevitalspirit.net/empath-apprenticeship/