You walk into a room and you know who is upset before anyone opens their mouth. You come home from a store you were only in for forty minutes and you have nothing left. Your friends bring you their pain because you are the one who can hold it, and afterward you are the one lying on the couch.

If any of that sounds like your life, this conversation is for you.

Lisa Campion has spent a career helping sensitive people stop drowning in what they absorb. In this episode she breaks down empath energy protection into something you can actually practice, starting today, in your car in the parking lot.

We talk about what an empath really is, why the world tells sensitive kids something is wrong with them, and how the same wiring that exhausts you is the thing that makes you good at the work you were called to do.

Then we go into energy vampires. The predatory ones, the victim vampires, the situational ones any of us can become when life knocks us flat. Lisa also names the part most people skip: a depleted empath who never learned to say no often becomes the biggest drain in the room.

What we cover:

The difference between feeling empathy and being an empath, and why the distinction changes everything
The three fundamentals of energy hygiene: grounding, clearing, and shielding
Lisa's practice before walking into a big box store, and the version you can do in a restroom in ninety seconds
Why empaths are called into hospice, teaching, nursing, and coaching, and why those fields burn them out
Energy vampires: how they hook you, why they find you, and what to do about it
The resentment inventory, a simple exercise that shows you exactly where your boundaries have failed
The empath trap: saying yes because you cannot face the other person's reaction
The first question to ask when a strong feeling hits out of nowhere: is this mine?
Refilling your tank with play, creativity, nature, and source instead of pulling from other people

About Lisa Campion

Lisa Campion is a psychic, Reiki master, and the best-selling author of The Art of Psychic Reiki, Energy Healing for Empaths, Awakening Your Psychic Abilities, and The Psychic Awakening Journal. Her fifth book, Sacred Reparenting, arrives in December. She is the founder of Quantum Lightwave Healing and has spent more than 25 years working with clients, blending psychic work, therapy training, and energy healing. Her mission, in her own words, is to build an army of healers.

Find Lisa: Website: https://lisacampion.com Books available wherever you buy books

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