5 Essential Practices to Prevent Emotional Overload for Empaths

Prevent Emotional Overload | The Vital Spirit | Laura Rowe | Empath Mentor | The 5 Essential Practices Empaths Use to Protect Their Energy

Highly sensitive people and empaths need to recharge daily if they want to prevent emotional overload, physical, and emotional burnout, coupled with anxiety. ~ unknown author Being an empath can be both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, it allows you to feel deeply connected to the people and the world around you. […]

Soul Signals: Trusting Your Intuition

Soul Signals | Trusting Your Intuition | The Vital Spirit | Laura Rowe | Empath Mentor

Revised: July 6, 2025 Listen to your inner voice. Trust your intuition. It’s important to have the courage to trust yourself. ~ Dawn Ostroff Making life decisions can be a difficult process, but trusting your intuition can make it easier. Everyone has an inner voice that speaks to them, guiding their decisions in life. Learning […]

What’s Happening When Empaths Awaken

What's Happening When Empaths Awaken | The Vital Spirit | Laura Rowe | Empath Mentor

Now, more than ever, our society is in need of sensitive and empathic people. Now, more than ever, the human race needs to go inwards and connect with the Soul again. As natural born healers, intuitive people, and mentors, it is not only our responsibility but also our destiny to help humanity heal. ~ Aletheia […]

#1 Practice for Ending the Cycle of Toxic Relationships

1 Practice for Ending the Cycle of Toxic Relationships | The Vital Spirit | Laura Rowe | Empath Mentor

Revised: August 16, 2025 Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. ~ Carl Jung Many empaths have a history of emotional abuse and find themselves years later in a cycle of choosing toxic relationships. These toxic partners will undoubtedly share certain toxic traits with the […]

Energetic Boundaries: How Empaths Can Stay Open Without Falling Apart

Energetic Boundaries | The Vital Spirit | Laura Rowe | Empath Mentor

Revised: July 6, 2025 Boundaries define us. They define what is me and what is not me. A boundary shows me where I end and someone else begins, leading me to a sense of ownership. Knowing what I am to own and take responsibility for gives me freedom. ~ Henry Cloud Personal energetic boundaries are […]

The Empath Mentor: Guiding You in Navigating Your Sensitivity

Navigating Sensitivity: The Role of the Empath Mentor | The Vital Spirit | Laura Rowe

Revised: July 6, 2025 Empaths are not meant to assimilate into the current world, rather we are meant to shine the light of love into the darkness of self-interest, greed, and power-over. ~ Laura Rowe, Empath Mentor If you are an empath or suspect you might be, then you understand the challenges that go with […]

What is an Empath?

What is an Empath? | The Vital Spirit | Laura Rowe | Empath Mentor

Revised: July 6, 2025 Sensitivity is an empath’s navigation system, let it light your way! ~ Laura Rowe, Empath “What is an empath?” you ask. An empath is someone who experiences the world they live in deeply: they have heightened senses and perceptions allowing them to perceive people and situations with great detail.  An empath is […]

Living in a Toxic Culture While Building Boundaries

Boundaries, Karma, and Living in a Toxic Culture | The Vital Spirit | Laura Rowe | Empath Mentor

Revised: July 7, 2025 “No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side.” ~ Dr. Gabor Mate on toxic culture There is a lot of discussion about boundaries in the therapeutic community these days, especially for empaths, but what I find lacking from these discussions is the honest discussion of the toxic nature […]

Developing the Intuitive Mind

Developing the Intuitive Mind | The Vital Spirit | Laura Rowe | Empath Mentor

Revised: August 16, 2025 The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. ~ Albert Einstein The intuitive yes is hard to hear when you first begin to sharpen this skill. It is quiet but […]

You’re Not a Narcissist—You’re an Empath with Boundaries

You're Not a Narcissist | You're an Empath with Boundaries | The Vital Spirit | Laura Rowe | Empath Mentor

Revised: July 7, 2025 Narcissists are masters of pathologizing your emotions. They convince you that your emotional reactions to the abuse are the problem, rather than the abuse itself. ~ Shahida Arabi, explaining how you’re not a narcissist Over the years, I have told countless clients, “no, you’re not a narcissist.” I understand the question, […]