Why Setting Boundaries is SO Hard for Empaths (and How to Get Some!)

Have you ever been told that you are "being mean" or "selfish" (or worse) when you finally decide that you are going to tell someone "no" who has been constantly draining your energy?

Or when you've decided that you no longer want someone's negative or toxic energy in your life?

Or when you decide that, for once, you are going to take care of yourself and NOT save someone who won't save themselves (for the 100th time)?

I have been there, done that - got a closet full of T-shirts to prove it. :) If you are an empath, I bet you do, too.

It's so freaking exhausting being an empath and having everyone want to take advantage of the fact that you care and that you WANT to help anyone and everything.

To make it worse, we often believe that because we are nice, kind people that setting boundaries IS mean or selfish, when it's truly not.

Everyone deserves to say that they simply have no more to give, or that they cannot help right then. If you don't, you will absolutely drain yourself of every drop of energy and life and maybe even money you've got to save people that will not save themselves.

It's time to stop believing everything you've been told about you having to ALWAYS be there to constantly for anything anyone could possibly need. It's time to understand how to feel the discomfort of putting up a healthy boundary, and to put it up anyway.

If you'd like more help on becoming an empowered empath, first, go take my Empath Test and see where you rate in terms of how open (or overwhelmed) of an empath you are: