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Ep 123 Rest + Recharging for Introverts 🥰 | Welcome to the Season of Self-Discovery! 🧐

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Hello lovelies! Thanks for listening! Rest and Recharging 😴 are absolutely imperative especially if you’re an introvert, even more so if you’re additionally a highly sensitive person and even more so if you’re additionally an empath. 😲 Why? Because we get depleted and drained 🫗much faster than others who are not these same traits. Why? For example…. Because introverts we need alone time to recharge. 🚶🏽‍♀️Think of it like a cell phone battery… we don’t need to recharge all day every day, just when our batteries are low or ‘in the red’ (just like a cell phone). 🪫 Most jobs are “extroverted”. For example, we’re around a lot of people all day, or we’re talking to many people all day, every day.🗣😳 An extrovert gets fueled 🔋by being around many people, introverts are the opposite. 🪫 And HSP’s we get even more drained 🫗 because our sensitivities are x 1000 😲 compared to those that are not an HSP so let's think about this for a moment...🤔 We sense everything around us (sights 👀, smells🤧, sounds 🙉, feels 🥹, x 1000) so if you’re an HSP like me you/we get drained faster 🫗 since we’re more sensitive to everything that’s around us all.of.the.time. 😨

We can’t turn it off and be like “self, don’t notice things for 5 minutes, will ya?” And we’ll not notice anything.

We’re born like this, + we can’t ‘turn it off’ 📴. If you’re also an Empath because word has it that all Empaths are HSP’s but not all HSP’s are necessarily Empaths. The word empath is short for empathy. ❤️‍🩹

I mentioned above that HSP’s sense things around us x1000 if you’re an empath you’re also an HSP so you’re sensing everything x 1000 also, and in addition you’re having empathy (feeling) the energy around you too. 😵‍💫🥹 If someone is having a bad day or they’re sad or down :(, we’ll usually pick on this as soon as we enter the room with them or speak to them.

If there’s tension, we can sense that and if someone is stressed or frantic we’ll feel that too.😳 Now that I know I’m an Empath if I’m stressed or down and I’m not sure why, I have to ask myself if it’s ‘mine’ or not. 🧐

Because it can feel like it’s ours when it’s not. That’s how deep feeling we are. 😲 So…Since we feel all of these “feels” ❤️‍🩹and our senses are x 1000 this is why we get drained and depleted much faster 🫗 and much more often than those that are not these traits and this is why we need to fill our cups even more so 🥛 and why it’s that much more imperative for us to do so. Iyanla Vanzant quote: “What’s in our cups is for us, what’s in the saucer (or the overflow), is for others. Resources: Free Personality Test | 16Personalities Self-Tests – The Highly Sensitive Person Are You an Empath? Take the 20 Question Empath Test - Judith Orloff MD The Difference Between Introverts, Empaths, and Highly Sensitive People I hope you enjoy this episode!

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