Most importantly because we tend to do this accidently and it can build up without notice. Other people’s emotions can get caught in our own energy and weight us down.

 
Here’s my favorite cleansing techniques: Take a bath, at least once a month, with Epson or sea salt.

Even though most people who come to me are struggling with emotional or spiritual issues, the topic of money always seems to come up.  Especially for Empaths.  Having to deal with their spiritual awakening and emotional overload demands a LOT of time and effort.  Many are simply too exhausted and run out of energy when it’s time to deal with career and money issues…

That can lead to a very painful situation where they feels like a failure (because money is the standard for success in our culture) when in fact they are successful at what they are working on, namely their spiritual growth.

And yet, money is also part of life.  Although it’s often frowned upon in spiritual circles, I find that having “enough” money is important.  In fact, in my experience, worrying about money is not conducive to spiritual growth.  It can consume you completely, distort your intuitive messages and leave you wanting it but hating it.

I know this first hand as I struggled with money for most of my life, way before I became aware of my spiritual journey.   After my spiritual awakening in 2002,  I quit my job so I could “serve” by providing free energy healing sessions and self help programs.  After a year of this, I was exhausted and stressed out.  That’s when a very kind spiritual teacher told me that taking care of my needs was essential and I should work on making enough money to support my family before I worried about taking care of other people.  It seems obvious now but at the time, it was a sort of revelation.

And so I did.  I used many tools over the years.  EFT was one of the most important!  It helped me clean up years of bad mental habits, family history and negative beliefs.  It also gave me solid grounds to sow better feeling thoughts and expectations about money.

Today, I feel that my relationship with money is healed.  Although I might get stressed once in a while, it’s rare, short lived and I bounce back quickly.  Of all the things I can think of that helped me find inner peace, being able to conquer my money nemesis was the most powerful one.   I consider myself “rich” by all the standards that matter to me.

I have been producing EFT coaching videos so that others might also benefit from them.  I keep writing new protocols for my clients who need support between their intuitive counseling sessions.  That way I can be “there” to help 24/7!

This latest EFT coaching video is on the theme of “financial security”, which describes the feeling of “having enough”.  I don’t feel it makes sense for most of us to work on winning the lottery or being a billionaire.  If you’re on a spiritual path, you clearly have other priorities than putting all your energy into being crazy rich.  You’re probably more focused on being happy, having satisfying relationships and a career you love.  So this video is aimed at that very special balance that we reach when we feel financially secure, even if we’re not retiring and moving the the Caribbean yet.

Because money issues tend to be pervasive, I recommend using this video for 14 days, then taking 14 days off.  During the off time, pay special attention to your intuition…It WILL show you the way!

Follow me in this EFT video and start to feel better in 5 minutes!
Repeat daily for lasting results!

As I struggled to stabilize my life, I started to get “ideas” (I feel they were sent to me as a gift) on how to help myself, slowly healing and understanding what was going on.  Over time, I felt inspired to share these ideas with others who might be suffering as I had.    I started publishing videos on youtube, creating community web sites so that people could connect and help one another and offering the Empath Survival Program freely.  I would do this at night, after my son was in bed.  Some people read books or watch TV in their evenings.  I worked on more material for my web site.

And yet, it never seems to be “enough”.

Just yesterday, someone sent me a message,  accusing me of  trying to profit from of the suffering of others. A few days ago, I got another one from someone calling me a “fake” and implying that I was “pretending” to be an empath so I could take advantage of people…

I guess these people think I am doing all this to make money?  Or to get some kind of advantage that I really can’t fathom?

But I am not.  I have a job to support myself and my son (I’m a single mom).   All the free material on my web site have been made without financial gain.  In fact, I have to pay hosting fees for my web site and buy the copyrights for the pictures I use in my videos.  It’s costing me money to keep publishing my work!

So when I get messages like that, it cuts right through me.  All I can do is sit in front of my computer, tears streaming down my face.  Wondering how it comes to be that my work of compassion gets twisted into some sort of master plan to hurt and profit.  I know these people don’t know me and can’t possibly understand how much their words hurt me.  And yet they do.

But it’s funny how things work out.

The day after those two painful messages, I got a thank you note.  Someone emailed me to say me how much the techniques I describe on my web site had helped her.  I cried upon reading that message too.  But good tears.

I like to imagine that this person will live a happier life because of what she knows.  I know I do.  I also like to think that if she was to meet another empath, she might be in a position to spread what she knows so that another may be helped.  And maybe another.

There has been many times when I just wanted to give up.  Always following one of those accusing messages. What’s the point of so much work if it gets twisted into something hurtful?  But then someone always says something that changes my mind.

So to those of you who have benefited from my work, whether or not you have told me about it, I want you to know you’re the reason I keep going.  Thanks for that.

in love,

Elise

Trust affects every aspect of our lives. And It’s a lot easier to go through life while trusting yourself than living in doubt and constantly second guessing everything. That can be really exhausting.

So something happened in the past that damaged your trust. It doesn’t matter what it is. But the path that will lead you back to it is not a huge leap of faith, but a series of baby steps where you can rebuild your trust over time.

So let’s get started! Tap along with me to feel more trust in your life…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKQlrvv-jZ0

Join me for a 5 minute EFT Coaching Video on Feeling Safe and see where it takes you!

in love,

Elise Lebeau, M.Sc. , Professional Intuitive

It occurred to me that people who suspect they have Empath friends can give them a subtle hint by Liking this page on Facebook! Do you “like” it?

in love,

Elise Lebeau, M.Sc., Professional Intuitive

www.EliseLebeau.com/askElise

Coming from a working class family, I spent my twenties in school working towards what I considered to be the key to success and happiness: a good career.  After a Bachelor’s degree in psychology, I started on my PhD. But a weird turn of events lead me to abandon my PhD., move the the US and switch fields to get a Master’s degree in engineering. From people to computers…

Looking back on it, I now feel that I was being protected from a career in psychology that would have been too draining since I was an Impaired Empath. I would have ended up emotionally burned out before I had a chance to get my Empath skills under control, which would not happen for another 7 years. Constantly experiencing every patient’s feeling as my own would have been soul crushing at the time.

I had been suffering from depression since my childhood (mostly due to uncontrolled Empath skills) but I had always managed to keep under control so as to remain highly functional.  In fact, most people I knew would have been surprised to hear that I was unhappy.  And yet, I was a tortured soul.  I was constantly run over by what everyone else was feeling but I didn’t know it at the time.  I thought everyone felt that way and I figured I was just very wimpy for not being able to deal with it.  I was deemed overly sensitive and told to “get over it”.

A few years into my career as an engineer, I married and became pregnant.  And that’s where the flood gates opened.  What had been a trickle of jumbled up Empath and intuitive information became a violent river that could not be stopped.  I unexpectedly found myself completely taken over by powerful feelings that made no sense to me.  Why was I suddenly filled with anger while making peanut butter and jelly toast? Why was I exhausted as soon as I stepped into a busy mall?  And why oh why would I get annoying thoughts about other people’s physical ailments?  I would “feel” in my own body other people’s diseases.  On top of that, I had terrible nightmares about people who would inevitably invade my bedroom at night.  I felt constantly exposed and drained.  Needless to say, I was exhausted.

My unborn son’s own energy had propelled me beyond the wall that I had dutifully built to block all this “weird” stuff and it triggered a chaotic spiritual awakening.  This was especially hard for me because I had no spiritual background whatsoever.  Not only that, but I had never been interested in religion or the spiritual aspect of life, even though I attended the best catholic schools in Montreal.  For me, life was primarily physical:  You live, you work, you have kids, you retire, you die.  Your brain dissolves, game over.

So when this spiritual baggage showed up on my door step, I resisted it with all my determination which, as my friends and family will tell you, is quite considerable.  The following years were very dark for me.  The dark night of the soul, it’s been called.  I felt like I was getting ripped apart as I tried to juggle my new role as a mother, my career as an engineer and the weird stuff that was happening to me internally from having fully awakened but totally uncontrolled Empath and intuitive abilities.

It was tough enough to have to deal with all that was happening to me, but it was even harder to have to go through this without the support I desperately needed.  Understandably, my family and friends were all very disturbed by all this.  I had studied psychology long enough to know that I sounded completely delusional.  Although I hold no grudge about it to all those involved, it was the most excruciating process to see everyone leave my life when I felt I needed them the most.

My friends looked at me like I was insane and severed all contact.  I was mocked and ridiculed by acquaintances.   My family was so uncomfortable about this that they refused to talk about it.   My husband grew immensely resentful that I had “changed”.  He had married an engineer and he was now stuck with some kind of weirdo Empath intuitive person who could not go to the mall or attend Christmas parties.  I was asked not to disclose my situation to my extended family.  But really, I was implicitly asked not to disclose anything to anyone so that everyone could pretend like nothing was happening.

I realize now that only another Empath could have understood how holding your own child can be overwhelming.  The purity of his love combined with my my extreme sensitivity would leave me completely exhausted.  My body was unable to handle such a constant, high level of activation.   It’s like being at war all the time, even though nothing visible is attacking you.  It was hard even for me to accept this and I don’t blame others for having struggled with it as well.

So I found myself completely alone.  Words can’t describe how abandoned I felt in my times of need.   This was many years ago when the term Empath referred only to fictional characters in fantasy role playing games and science fiction TV shows.    And it didn’t occur to me until much later in life that I could have found a spiritual counselor to guide and support me through this disorienting transition.

Of course, life has a way to work itself out…  Over the years, I developed techniques to manage my rogue Empath skills.  That’s how the Empath Survival Program was born.  I figured out how to use my intuitive skills productively, both in my work as an engineer and as an intuitive counselor.  I created an online community for Empaths, so that no one ever has to go through this alone.  I found counselors who were willing and able to listen to me as I worked all this out.   Some family members got used to the idea that I am what I am and have been more supportive and accepting.  New friends who had similar experiences came my way.  And now I constantly run into people who tell me about their intuitive and Empath experiences!  I finally accepted myself as I am and although I initially felt powerless and a victim to this process, I can now organize my life to feel at peace with my situation.

But to this day, it remains a balancing act between my physical life as a single mom/engineer and my spiritual life.  Our modern society is completely devoid of support for those of us who get swept away by a powerful spiritual calling.  Every day, I have to be ready to suddenly receive the strong messages of my spiritual self and seamlessly switch gears so I can go back to loading the dishwasher.  While people are going to parties, I am going on silent retreats to give myself a break.  It’s weird but it’s what works for me.

So wherever you find yourself on your spiritual journey (and if you are reading this, you probably already had your own awakening), keep in mind that it’s always a work in progress and if you find yourself lost and confused…rest assured that you are not alone.

But please do me a favor and find support, locally or on the web.  Talk to a spiritual counselor.  It does make a world of difference…

in love,

Elise Lebeau, M.Sc., Professional Intuitive

www.EliseLebeau.com/askElise

My web site now has a brand new resource page on EFT that includes detailed instructions as well some  free “Tap Along” videos!

Stay tuned for brand new EFT Tap Along videos as well!  I have 10 new protocols ready to be published!!!

in love,

Elise Lebeau, M.Sc, Professional Intuitive

If you want more detailed instruction on eft, you can find them here.

Otherwise, join me for a life changing 5 minutes as we tap on moving past paralyzing fears…