29/07/2025
My recent truth - as a healer, tarot reader, and human being…
When I first stepped into this work, I felt this pressure to show up a certain way, in all professional fields I’ve explored it seemed to be a theme I gripped onto, you know the one who knows how to be the guide, the light, the one who knew exactly how to help others.
I put so much energy into being perceived a certain way that, over time, I burned out and completely overlooked my own needs because I was put here to “serve”
It wasn’t that I didn’t love the work, because I know even to this day, when someone reaches out for a reading or healing, I light up. I feel calm. Aligned. Grateful. But the pressure to constantly “perform” as the healer, the helper, the one who has it all together, especially for social media purposes… that was the part that wore me down. This isn’t me saying I don’t love and appreciate the people who’ve supported me, because without you I never would have even started and continued. But even the people closest to me began getting the version of me who was tired. Who didn’t want to show up anymore. Because I had nothing left.
I didn’t realise how much I was neglecting myself in the process. Always showing up for others — friends, family, clients — while putting my own needs on the backburner. Over time, that neglect turned into quiet resentment. Exhaustion. Disinterest in what once brought me joy, which applied to so many life areas not just my work.
And maybe this isn’t the end of the journey… maybe it’s the beginning of a new one.
Because when we live in the stories of who we think we need to be, we burn out. We feel like we don’t belong. We start to lose ourselves. And this is okay. This is part of healing too. This is how we learn what actually works for us.
The old saying is true: you can’t pour from an empty cup. But I denied that truth for a long time, because I thought constantly “I’m a healer — I have to help people. They need me.”
But that mindset gave away my power, and implied others couldn’t access their own and the energy behind that was all was wrong.
If you’ve been here, if you are here, or if you feel yourself heading here, this is the growth ❤️