It's taken me a long time to understand that other's opinions about me don't matter.
For most of my life, I allowed fear of criticism and worry about how others would react to something I said or did to drive what I said or did.
🌟 You cannot live your life for other people.
🌟You cannot live someone else's dream for them.
🌟You cannot be someone other than who you are.
Do you feel pulled apart at the seams because you have so many people who need so. many. things. all. the. time. and they expect you to put aside all your needs to take care of their wants?
Yeah, me, too.
It took me a LONG time to finally understand that I was allowed to keep some energy for myself.
I was allowed to say "no."
Like a moth to a flame, energy vampires are naturally drawn to an empath’s open, kind, helpful energy.
We can get unbelievably drained by this, so it’s important to know how to recognize the energy vampires in your life, and to have tools to start decreasing the time spent with them and protecting yourself from their constant energy feeding on you.
