Hello Friend!

I remember a time when providing spiritual counseling and coaching exhausted me. I’d limit the number of clients I saw or classes I taught just to give myself enough time to recuperate.

I was overwhelmed by people’s pain, and I spent way too much time trying to fix them, so that they’d do better and (in full disclosure)—so I would be in less pain.

Perhaps, you’ve had a similar experience of your own. Once you’ve seen your last client, patient, student, co-worker (or even family member) for the day, you just want to collapse.

I used to wonder, “Am I just too compassionate, or am I not compassionate enough?”

Have you had this same dilemma?  Wondering where you must be out of sync, because you think you shouldn’t be this wiped out?

I could never figure out what I was doing wrong…

… until I discovered I wasn’t doing anything wrong at all! I was simply missing a deeper understanding about the true nature of compassion.

What I eventually realized is that we’ve been operating from an incomplete understanding of compassion. Here’s how I got to that realization.

Because I’d been blessed to have a mystical experience many years ago in which I was the infinite space of the womb of all creation—sacred feminine essence—the source of all compassion…