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Intuitive Empathy

3/24/2019

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I spent over half of my lifetime heavily medicated. During that time, my parents loved and believed in me very much, but they didn’t understand how to help me, or the magnitude of what was happening back then. They tried everything they could, before asking me if I wanted to see a Psychiatrist at age 16. My biggest enemy early on, was NOT my gift, it was my intuitive empathy. As a teen I was like a raw nerve walking through the hallways of a High School, absorbing every ounce of self destructive thoughts, sexual confusion, abuse and damage, and processing it ALL as my own. Don’t get me wrong we had family issues too, but who didn’t in the 80’s and 90’s?


“Intuitive Empathy,” is one’s ability to inadvertently absorb emotional energy from those around them. Most often it happens when you’re emotionally connected to another human, but for the highly sensitive, a connection isn’t necessary. It can happen when you're in close proximity with another, or miles apart when you're emotionally connected. All I would have to do was walk down a hall way, touch the locker of someone that had been hurt, or brush shoulders with a student, and I would physically FEEL, what someone had gone through/experienced or done to another. It was how I knew my HS boyfriend had raped an underclassman, and that she was telling the truth. It’s how I knew a parent was capable of sexually assaulting underage drinkers during parties in their home, and how certain teachers drank at school. It was often the big stuff God dammit, the stuff NO ONE WANTED TO OWN, and for good reason, but when I was moved to confront another human, ask for help, or attempt to discuss my visions and feelings, I experienced violent human shut downs, or public humiliation, and all to deflect what I knew in my soul was true. This lead to an extreme distrust of self and the inability to understand how to manage this unique part of me.


Mental illness is real, it just wasn’t my true story. I was placed on pages and pages of medications over the course of 13 years, all of which worked for no longer than a few months at a time. I would eventually respond to Lithium and that was ALL IT TOOK for a psychiatrist to hand me a Bipolar Diagnosis. Medication can serve a purpose in a souls learning experience. It never truly worked for me, because I wasn't Bipolar, but it dialed my emotional sensitivity down enough for me to function in the world at a time when I  wasn’t ready to stand out in any way that I believed could make me even more "unlovable." Not everyone would agree and that’s ok, but I didn’t have the support system to be ME back then. I was so painfully sensitive that existing, was all I could manage.  I spent way to long trying to make others proud. I spent way too long trying to show my family and doctors who I really was. It wasn’t until I trusted myself and began seeking out like minded individuals, that I found ME. Shortly thereafter I found my “gifts” and began using them to help others. 


It IS possible to have therapists, psychiatrists, doctors and/or family that believe in you (and your gift), but it HAS to start with YOU. My advice to every Empath is to do all that you can to empower yourself. Do not rely upon others to make you happy or to fulfill your soul emotionally. Surround yourself with people that lift you higher, that truly love you and ingest content that educates you and brings you joy. Please know that family may not be part of what brings you back to you, and that’s 100% ok. Don’t force anything. Your internal navigation will never steer you wrong. 


There are so many different ways to interpret the same condition. What Western Medicine calls one thing, Eastern will call another, and a Shaman will heal in two hours (whoops did I just say that out loud?). Again, not everyone will agree with this. I am not a doctor, but I have been through a lot and it all lead me to one of the most amazing lifetimes anyone could have ever asked for.

You are so special. You may go through hell for years before finding yourself. Things may feel intolerably dark  before they give way to light, but please never lose hope. Please never lose faith in yourself. Your tribe is out there and your life awaits. You and only you can affect our world, can make it better, in the way you were born to do. I believe in you. I will continue to remind you of all your beauty and potential until you see it in yourself once more.

​Love Always, 

Mel


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    MY Story

    I am a single mom to TWO amazing humans and a Professional Medium. There is nothing more important to me than my boys and my work. We are a (relatively) normal family, with an open heart. We live and breathe to help people heal uniquely in this world. 
    When I was 28 years old and unexpectedly pregnant with my second son, my life changed overnight. I began to hear a woman's voice. She told me her name was "Suzanne." I heard a buzzing that first night. I walked through the whole house searching for this voice and sound, and found myself in our bathroom. I was facing the bathtub and the wall of curtains standing between me and a loud noise
    ​. I heard a Lion roar so loud I thought that if I pulled back the curtain I might be eaten alive. I heard the Superman theme song and she told me her name was Suzanne over and over and what I remember most was a.) I wasn't afraid and b.) How the information was being relayed. It took me three days to tell my son's father. I was so unnerved that I had called the Psychiatrist and scheduled an appointment. I struggled with severe postpartum after my first son was born and this took the cake as far as psychotic breaks go. I was one of the rare few that landed in the Psychiatric Department for a solid week post delivery and I had good reason to be afraid I was struggling again. You see, this was the first time in my life, that I had been off all antidepressant and mood stabilizing medications. I had been heavily medicated for what my doctors now recognize are my unique gifts. My system was clear for the first time and that was terrifying to me. Little did I know this was the beginning of my awakening. 
    Three days after my first encounter with Suzanne, I EMAILED Josh. I told him I feared I was losing my mind, and that I may need to reach out to the UW Psych department. I was hearing voices and I didn't have any control over when and how it happened. Needless to say, Josh raced from American Parkway in Madison, WI to Cambridge in under 30 minutes. He walked in the door and said, "What did she say?""
    "I heard the name Suzanne over, I heard the super man theme song, a lion roaring. I was NOT never afraid and I had the most beautiful calm, peaceful endorphin rush (like) feeling as I laid there each time....." With tears in his eyes Josh had said, "My grandmother's name was Suzanne. My mother was a Medium that worked closely with the Madison Police Department back in the mid to late 80's. She has not been able to contact her since she died three years earlier. She was one of the few people that knew, I wanted to name my son after Superman." We would deliver our son, CalEl William, (CalEl after Kal-El, Superman's Kryptonian name, and William after Suzanne's loving husband, Josh's grandfather) in August of 2010. He is the strongest, and loudest, roaring Leo (The astrological Lion) I have ever met. The love I felt those three days urging me to share, allowed me to realize that energy never dies. It cannot be destroyed, only transferred from one form to another (2nd law of Thermodynamics). It is intelligent, intentional and loving. Relaying a message changed my life, as did my time with my Josh's family. They supported what I was to become, and showed me that anything is possible. I will forever be grateful for what my son, and that period of my life, helped to transform within me. It is what brought me to serve the departed and those that seek to heal uniquely.

    How DoES My BRain Work?

    I have several Gifts. I am an empath primarily which means if you think it or feel it, I do too. I am clairvoyant which means that I see things, much like a day dream, when I am shown by the dead, what information to convey. Lastly, I am psychic/intuitive, which means I have dreams, get impressions and sometimes fragments of the future. All of my heightened senses combined allow me to help others heal and recover from tragedy, shock and/or trauma, in very unique and intuitive ways. 

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