Energy Vampires (and moving beyond them)

I hear people talking about energy vampires a lot these days, and it always stirs something up in me. And what better time (than Halloween season) to explore this notion of energy vampires and their "victims". In this podcast, I want to explore the limits of this concept of energy vampires (and “toxic” people) overall, and explore our part in the co-creation of relationship dynamics (so if you identify as an empath, I talk about this) and how we want to start moving beyond these concepts.  Because, while they can illuminate patterns for us, our use of these concepts can keep us victimized, cut off from ourselves, our healing, and from our ability to embody our power in such a way that we don’t HAVE to work constantly to manage relationships and constantly work to protect ourselves. Ultimately, when we can embody our power, we can effortlessly communicate healthy boundaries to the world.

Want to get started with some simple embodiment practices?  Have a look at the resources in the episode's show notes.  

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Parenting can lead us to a threshold in life we hadn’t known before. We're bringing into the parenting dynamic with our kids the momentum of our previous experiences - our resources and resilience, as well as our disconnection and disembodiment due to trauma (individual, familial, cultural, historical & intergenerational).  Beyond the challenges we face to parent in ways we may not have been parented, there is a deep love for our children that wants to be expressed and known in presence with them. There's also a yearning in us to experience that deep love ourselves; to feel our power and to live authentically, just as we yearn to protect that for our kids, too. The urgency to heal what's still alive within us might come up with a force because of them, and yet it's ultimately a reclamation of our life force, vitality, joy, connection and creativity we're most hungry for. It’s sometimes a desire bold as love that fuels our courage to meet what we fear to face.