If you’re on my email list and reading this, odds are extremely high that you’re an empath. You are highly sensitive and feel other people’s feelings – possibly more acutely than they do. You probably want to make them feel better. You probably want to solve their problems, or at least help them ease the struggle.

I have done this…do this. All the time. Especially with people I’m very close to. I don’t want them to feel pain anymore so I try to stop it.

Thing is – it’s not my role to fix everything. (Oooph, I really didn’t want to say “everything” but there it is.)

In some circumstances, it’s my guided path to get involved. Other times, it’s not. What I’ve come to learn from my winged teachers is that when I get involved and it’s not in alignment, I’m interrupting karma and inserting myself into someone else’s soul healing in a disruptive way. Not my intention, of course, but when we try to heal “everything”, we stick our noses where it doesn’t belong.

A strategy that has helped me tremendously with dialing this back is asking myself – is this a problem I’m guided to solve, a situation I’m guided to get involved with… right now?

If the answer isn’t a clear yes, I step it back and remind myself that this is between them and God. I trust that they will find their way through and the people to support them will appear on their path. Maybe it will be me in the future, or not.

At a time when we are needed in so many places with our hearts pulled to help the many, we are tasked to stay in alignment with our guidance to keep our energy where it’s needed most while also preserving our own karmic path.