Hello and welcome to almost 30 podcasts. Hey everybody, if you're new to the show, welcome.

I am Lindsay. This is Christa. We started this when we were almost 30. But now it's

really become like a metaphor for any transition and a community to support you a resource

so that you really never feel alone and you feel like you can dig in here anytime you're

feeling, I don't know, a little lost, maybe a little in need of guidance. Yeah. Here to

be your spiritual besties. Truly. Here to make you feel less alone and we're so grateful

to be your guides in this journey. I'm really excited about this conversation. This is something

that was a huge realization for me and my spiritual awakening of being someone who is empathic,

very empathic, almost so empathic and mid-enial of it. I've never wanted to even admit it.

And then realizing how much of our conversation around being an empath is really tied into

codependency and tied into a measurement and really just sort of taking an honest and hard

look at that journey and conversation so that we can be as aware and conscious as possible

as empathic beings. Yeah. I really realized I needed to be like, it was like a responsibility

thing for me when, because I know I'm empathic, but I was like, wait, how much of this can

I actually control, which is a lot, I think. Yes. Once you become conscious to what you

were saying, the codependent tendencies and just what I was compensating for because of

how I grew up or what I felt I needed to be or yeah, it's been such a journey. I have

a lot of internal pep talks when I'm feeling like super spongy. Yes. I'm like, this is not yours.

All as well. Yes. You are in your body. Yes. I always like, I put my hand over my heart

now when someone's like, so I can differentiate my body and unblend my body from theirs. Yeah.

And just kind of keep that space. But being an empath is something that's so beautiful

and powerful. And so many of you have a gift of being an empath. I think from a numeric

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