Awakening the Eternal Empath: A Conversation with Karen Blaine

Join us for a powerful conversation with Karen Blaine, certified hypnotherapist, author, and founder of Eternal Empath. In this episode of “Worthy & Abundant,” Karen shares how sensitivity can be transformed into a superpower and what it truly means to embrace your uniqueness and know that being sensitive is a superpower. Together, we explore the journey of self-love, authentic living, and the practical steps empaths can take to turn deep feeling into deep strength. Whether you’ve ever felt “too much” or are seeking new ways to embrace abundance and worthiness in your life, Karen’s story and tools will inspire you to own your empathic gifts and create lasting change from the inside out.Karen Blaine is a published author, full-time writer, retired certified hypnotherapist, and intuitive empath dedicated to inspiring her readers to embrace their authentic selves and live more fulfilling lives. With a background in creative arts and a BA in Speech Communications, Karen writes books that explore personal growth, the power of the subconscious, and the importance of self-love. Her works, including You Are Not Alone, Who Are You, Dreamscapes, Subconsciously Speaking, and Up In The Air, offer tools for self-discovery, resilience, and emotional well-being. A lifelong Southern California resident, Karen is also a passionate reader and a proud mother of four.

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Transcript

 welcome back to Worthy and Abundant. I'm so glad you're here. I have an amazing special guest today. I'm super excited about. She is a published author.

She's written many books. She is a full-time writer, a retired certified hypnotherapist with a specialization in conversational hypnotherapy as an intuitive empath. Her writing is dedicated to educating, enlightening, and. Firing readers to find their most authentic selves and live their best lives. Karen aims to connect deeply with readers and teach them to dream big and embark on personal journeys that result in lives of love and gratitude.

I am so excited to talk to Karen today because I am also an empath and her website is Eternal Empath, and she has. She's just a beautiful soul and I'm super excited to share her with my audience. So welcome Karen, to the show. Thank you for being here. Thank you so much for having me.

Yes, and I could have gone on and on with your,, about you, but we'll let, we'll just put that in the, , show notes and let's get started with talking to you and asking you some beautiful questions. Do you wanna share a little bit about your. Beginning and what inspired you to create eternal empath and how has your own journey as an empath shaped your philosophy of healing and personal transformation?

Sure. And I'm not, I bet you and I have some similarities. In our beginning, I was initially. To told, I felt different from the moment I was like five and could remember I didn't feel like anyone really understood me. And and so I didn't know what to do with that. And so I would ask my family of origin and they said, toughen up.

You're too sensitive. Be someone. And that I wasn't. Like I wasn't good enough who I was, and I went feeling inadequate. Not good enough, which is in the book. You are not alone. But I won't plug anymore That's. But anyway, it does talk about how to get past that. 'cause I learned how to get past that as I grew.

Eventually my, I did love my father a lot though. E even though he wasn't very, he loved sports and he loved the stock market, but I loved him because he was a sincere, wonderful human being. And that was okay. That's beautiful. So he passed and that's when I, it was as if my chakra opened up in my head and I would wake up every day at 3:00 AM and I would start writing every day by hand.

Like, how old were you at this point? Like how recent was that? Oh, like in 11 years ago. Okay. I'm not old, but I mean like my kids were grown. Yeah. Yeah. So he passes away and you just suddenly keep getting up in the middle of the night and you're writing, so you became a writer. Yes, and I think it has a lot to do with my feeling.

He's over there, my dad in the poster. But I, it has a lot to do with my, my, the depth of my sorrow. I went through the cycle of life and I had to just come out the other side and writing and was really good. And then I realized I could help others go through, not just this journey of passing, but just as I started to learn more and more.

The journey of the subconscious, the journey of loving yourself and self-worth, and the journey of accepting yourself as an authentic person. Yeah. It's so all the books that, yeah. That's so powerful. Were you spiritual prior to this? Not too much. Not too much. I was, I was, I believed in God. I with all my heart, but I wasn't too spiritual.

Okay. And then what was your career were you a hypnotherapist though prior to becoming an author or was that all together? I wasn't a h hypnotherapist, but then I retired from that and I wasn't that for too long, for four years. And before that I was a mom. Four kids. Yes. Okay. Stay at home mom, which is a very big job, by the way.

And four children is a lot. So I had one, so I totally understand. That's a full-time gig. A very important one. So as someone who's turned sensitivity into strength, what pivotal moment helped you see your sensitivity as a superpower instead of a challenge? I would say when. I was reading a book and it started to describe exactly who I was.

And I started to realize that there are millions of people like me. I was not alum. Millions like you and so many that are out there and. It gave me this sense of peace that I had never known. And then my hus, we went to a, I, my husband and I went to a therapist together and she said your wife is highly sensitive and in empath.

And on she goes, she can read the room, she can read people. This is what's going on. And then my husband understood and when he understood, I felt like I accepted for the. For the first time maybe in my life. Wow. And like how long had you been married at this point? We've been married a long time, 45 years.

Oh wow. Oh, at that point, that was about 10 years ago, so 30, 35 years. Wow. Okay. So he then was able to understand you better, even though you had been married all those years still. Yeah. Interesting. That's very powerful. It's very different than me. Very, yeah. Opposites attract typically, right? Why do you, okay, so why do you believe that self-love is foundational to healing and personal growth?

I do as well, but I wanna hear from you. I know that I share some solo episodes and I do some coaching myself, and I always talk about self-love and I teach self-love and worthiness because we teach what we need. So I wanna hear from you about your self love, how it's foundational to healing and personal growth.

And can you share a story from your own life of. Or your clients' journeys? Clients' journeys that illustrates this. Yes, absolutely. So I feel like self-love and value and I Sure you too, is the foundation for our lives because we can't really love our anything if we don't feel that way about ourselves.

And so many people don't. They are. Put down by whoever and they stop. They think they have that fear of failure or they have a fear of abandonment. Maybe they've been abandoned, but what all kinds of things happen so that self-love and worthiness isn't there. So what I've done with conversational hip therapy to put them into a place where they could absorb affirmations, that's a story that.

It's really helped some of those clients of mine to understand they were amazing. And I could see the turn, I could see it after maybe four sessions. I could see that it went all the way down into their gut, the intuition portion, and they were feeling it deeply. But I don't do all the way, I don't do, I don't.

I like them to remember. I like people to remember. And also for me and for my family, it was very important because they had to learn. They always thought mom's, different, they're not like me. And they are like, mom's different. And she's highly sensitive and she's this and that.

And yeah, my kids weren't that way and it might have been because I raised them where every week I would take them and instead of, instead of asking about their homework and their schoolwork, I asked them how they felt about their week, how they felt about their friends. Were they sad? What made them sad?

What was there an event? What made them happy? Was there something that was really great? And so I always went to the inside and I kept the external out of raising them always. And so they knew. They knew it was different. They knew that they were worthy not for their external validation because their mother gave them love unconditional and helped them through their own emotions, and that's so powerful and beautiful.

Thank you. I'm gonna cry again. That's so amazing though. No, it's. We need that. Because it's just, I witness, I'm a very much a child and animal advocate and I walk around my apartment community and see people with children and how they talk to their children and I'm like, you're damage in my mind. I try not to be judgmental.

I really do. But like I know the damage that can happen when you just say the wrong, or speak, I don't wanna say wrong, but criticize children or, you're so right. The thing I would add is that I always felt if they had self-love and self-worth, then the choices they would make, I didn't have to worry about too much because it would come from this place of inner confidence.

Yeah. So I was I believed that. I don't know what made me believe that, but I always believed that in my heart. Gosh, that's so good. Yeah. See, I didn't have that foundation. Like I didn't either. Yeah, I had, I didn't need, I made a lot of mistakes as a teen and got in trouble and just, I have such a story of overcoming, it's oh, tell me the wounded warrior.

Pardon? Do you have a, do you wanna talk about that a little? Oh just like I had, I.

I feel like I wasn't I didn't have a lot of supervision as a young or a teenager. We moved and I didn't fit in, so I got in with the wrong crowd. And it's in the book. I co-authored a book. So it's in there. It's all over. I've, I'm very authentic. I share it. I used to carry shame for many years.

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Shame's the lowest vibration. And I had shame for many different reasons, thinking I wasn't good enough 'cause I didn't have the college degree, or I wasn't, anyway but I got in with the wrong crowd, got in, wanted my dad worked a ton. He was a good man. I didn't have a role, like a self-care role model.

My mother didn't show that my dad was not around a lot. So I ended up, getting in trouble with drugs and the law and just scarred for life, falling into a career that's, real estate, which is, sales is a rejection business. I met my son's father and 90. Two I 90, no, I got my real estate license in 92.

In 95 I met him and like he was better than the other men, but he wasn't a match. And we ended up having a child and there was just, oh my goodness so much. And then I had a debilitating illness in 11 and 12 and I was misdiagnosed by a bunch of doctors and I had to be my own advocate 'cause I'm an intuitive and I figured it out and I took myself to, so I have a long story of just constant overcoming.

And then that, yeah. And then three years ago I sold my home and moved across the country after being in an event in Miami with Gina Deve. Do you know who Gina Deve is? Probably, no. Okay. Anyway, she wrote a book called The Audacity to Be Queen, which is a powerful, really good book for women. I used to say it's required reading for every female on the planet.

But anyway, so she's a coach and an author. That, that event I was in dad and struggling in my business. My son was graduating college soon. And long story short, I ended up going, 'cause if nothing changes. And I ended up selling my house, moving to Florida with the dog. My newly new rescue dog.

I've had dogs for 30 years, but anyway, he's been like truly a soul like dog, like my angel. And anyway, I started this coaching and then the podcast and it's like everything that needed to be cleared, healed, and resolved, showed up in my face who are you to teach? Who are you to coach?

Anyway, so all the trauma, all the unresolved, it all showed up here in Florida. And I just had to like. Start working more on me thinking I was here, but I really, 'cause I'd been hiring coaches and stuff, they were all spiritual. But anyway, so it's a long, I'm condensing it all and I wanna talk to you, but but yeah, it's a lot of, it's an interesting, yeah.

I'm glad you overcome it. That's the main thing. Thank you. Yeah. I'm still like. Reparenting myself, I'm still being my best own best friend. Learning to love myself, learning to manifest, learning to rewire the subconscious, right? All of the things, right? All of the things. And you also work on the subconscious, or you have always internal, not external.

Could you explain what subconscious loops are and how they influence our emotional experiences? Okay why I think it's so important is because everyone's different, right? So some people may need more of that than others, and that's okay. But for highly sensitive people, especially when we go to our subconscious.

We can reframe events, we can go to our gut intuition, we can feel what the other person's feeling. It gives us a little bit of energy because we know and if we are getting overwhelmed, say we're at a party or something like that, we excuse ourselves. And then we'll reframe. That was your word, that situation and center ourselves.

And then we can say, why did that make me feel bad? Did was that important to feel like that? This is from the subconscious, you just talking to yourself, your inner self and I have decided Being, being introspective and using your subconscious is a superpower for you. For me, even though I was ashamed of it for years, you talked about shame.

Now I view it as a superpower and everyone has a superpower. It doesn't matter if it's that or something else. Everyone has it. Yeah. So you believe that 95% of our actions or inactions come from our programming, the subconscious programming from zero to seven when you're a sponge in a week order, and you're taking on all these energies and beliefs that aren't yours.

I took like I felt unworthy or she didn't wanna buy me those jeans 'cause they're too expensive or you don't get invited to whatever or Yeah. You know I was abandoned at five year, locked out of the house in the pouring rain at five years old, banging on the door. Just things that like you were, remember I happened to be listening to a podcast and she's what's your earliest childhood memory?

And I'm like, oh my god. Mine was when I was attacked by a cat at four and. Locked outta the house at five, and it's just whoa. That's my earliest child memory. And then it comes back and you're like, whoa, I think I was abandoned long before. So it's all just awakening and awarenesses. Yeah. Very cool.

And it comes back in pieces, right? Little piece snippets of your life. Yeah. In your view, what are the most important steps someone can take to transform emotional sensitivity into authentic strength and resilience? Yeah. So when I'm feeling. Myself I'll use myself as the example.

So when I'm feeling highly sensitive and I'm starting to feel like I don't belong, I wanna leave and I do leave sometimes if I'm overwhelmed, I will leave and that's okay. It is okay. I did that this morning. I was at a networking event and it was packed. I knew it was gonna be, and I just didn't wanna be there.

And I had some other things to do anyway, but I made an appearance and I laughed because I just. Yeah, I couldn't too many people. I'm proud of you. Thank you. That's a good thing. That's the right thing. I don't beat myself up over it at all. It's more like good for you and you went, yes, you went and then you knew when it was time for you to leave because you were overwhelmed.

That's turning right there Is your example of turning sensitivity into strain. 'cause you knew when to leave. You went there. You are highly sensitive, but you went there and did it. I'm proud of you for that. Thank you. But then you left when you felt like you were overwhelmed by it and that strength.

Thank you. Definitely. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny because I. More and more as an adult. Like I don't have to choose that, but I don't mind choosing. I like a calmer, peaceful place. Like it was a coffee networking and it was packed and there was a line and it was just too much. And I left and went to a different coffee shop, grabbed a coffee.

It was so peaceful and quiet, and then went home to do work that I needed to do. But it's like. I did that was let yourself rest, relax, and center and happy. Because our goal, ultimate goal is happiness and inner peace, right? It's happiness and inner peace and whatever that looks like. So I like to compare, like when this one guy was saying, you need to have more fun.

This is like couple years back when I moved here and he wanted to go out and whatever, and I wasn't attracted or interested in him, but the point is. I'm like, your fun and my fun could be very different. 10 years ago maybe. I felt the way he does, but now I enjoy sitting on the couch with the dog with a book.

I'm still having fun. It's my fun. Yeah. Oh same, right? Same. Yeah. It's my favorite thing to do, but sometimes I push myself to turn that sensitivity into strength. Sometimes I'm just saying I want peace at all costs. Yeah. I want peace. And my husband does understand that I need to, he'll go without me a lot of times, and that's fine.

Or I'll take my own car and leave when I need to. So that's another thing. Or I'll take a break from the party and come back to it once I've reframed the situation. But anyway. Yeah. Yeah. It's an important thing to do. That's turning sensitivity into strength right there. When you're doing that, all of these things are turning your sensitivity into strength because you're not giving in to feeling bad about yourself, and that's the key.

Yeah. Yeah. I was just gonna ask you, what advice would you give someone struggling with perfectionism, especially those who feel pressured to suppress their authentic self? I would say that the most important thing they can do is be congruent, right? Is have their head in their head. They know, okay, I really shouldn't be perfect because it's not gonna be healthy for me.

I think most a lot of people know that now, but their heart is telling them, I, I need to be perfect 'cause I was conditioned by society and my family that I have to be perfect. Yes. What you have to do is put them in congruence and once they're together in congruence, then you can become authentic. And that is authenticity.

And and part of that dynamic is gratitude. Once you have, it's hard. It's really hard to be, to not have self-love and not feel good about yourself. And that goes back to that entire conversation we just had. But it feel, it's really important when you have self-love to and then you're, and then you're grateful and you go to gratitude.

I'm alive today. I'm breathing today. You go to what's called mindfulness, right? And you are enjoying exactly where you are at what you're doing. And so with that piece and that activity of just understanding each phase of what you're doing, then I think that. That's a key to accepting perfection. But I have a book, my last book is called The Illusion of Perfection because I've had an issue with friends who wanted to be perfect and they pa they committed suicide.

So just came to me in the night. One girl was. My friend was so beautiful and so rich and so intelligent and my, she didn't feel the inside. Oh my God. Oh my gosh. And then a guy I know very, was famous and he had, everyone said, oh, he has everything. So I wanted to write this book, and I said in the beginning of the book, I said, once you read this book, you'll never say to yourself.

Oh, but he was famous or she was rich. You, those words will never, ever enter your thoughts again by the end of this book. Oh my gosh. I love that. I wanna talk about your books. I just have to say, I moved, when I moved here, I had a lot more money than I have at this moment in time. And I was 15 pounds or more lighter, and I still was in lack and scarcity.

And I thought I had to lose weight. I didn't think I looked good. I, so I like to say this because when I look back at the pictures and I look and I know how much I, and I'm today. I love myself more today and I accept myself more today and I am in more abundance because of the gratitude and the work I've done on myself.

But it's just, it's exactly what you said here. You have these beautiful, wealthy, everything going for them and then not feeling good. That is just, I'm so sorry for that, but it's so interesting and that's what society and conditioning going to schools. Like the perfectionist starts in the school because they're teaching the kids.

Then you get rewarded for being doing it, right way. And what is the right way. Yeah. And everybody's different. And they learn different. And like I said, when I, we, before we hit record, I was telling you about the A DHD that I self-diagnosed and it's whoa. Another piece of that puzzle as to why I am different.

Right and why I learned differently. So let's talk about what inspired you to, you wrote a six books, right? Yep. And I've also wrote it. It's not ready yet, but a seventh is on the way. That's incredible. Yeah. What inspired it? What inspired it was? First when my dad passed I was very sad. And that started the whole learning about being hypnotherapist and subconscious because I just had needed an outlet.

And for me, the outlet's always been internal. Very much i'm not an external person, and that's just who I am. And it and it's very hard, it's hard for a lot of other people to understand, but not the people I've met on the podcast, which is it's so wonderful. I feel seen and it's just amazing.

So I appreciate that very much. I'm glad. Yeah, it's been a gift too for me. Every time, every this podcast, I've met so many amazing souls and just learned so much. Can I ask, so did you do hypnotherapy for yourself and you fell in love with it and then became a hypnotherapist? Is that what happened?

Yes. Oh, but I didn't do hypnotherapy where people were just put out. I did conversational hypnotherapy. Okay. What is the difference? Can you share? Yes, of course. So let's take meditation and affirmations. Okay. What I would do is put a client into a darkened room, some, maybe some soft kind of spiritual music and candles, even everything to just make 'em peaceful and take them, down a little bit.

We would just. Talk and suck softly and bring them to a different space. 'cause everything is fast and rushy outside, right? So once they were in that space of peace and protection, which I tried to give them in a nice, beautiful chair and all of it, a blanket, and then I would give them the affirmations they had asked me to give them whatever it was, but mo a lot, mostly guess what it came back to?

Self love, self worth, self-esteem, and so I just really ha, I hammered a home on loving, you love and accept yourself. I love I would say to them. I know that you love and accept yourself. I know that you think that you're a beautiful person. I know that. And I would just go on and on, give them a lot of affirmations and and that would be my hypnotherapy.

It was more, like I said, conversational. But, okay, so would they fill out some kind of form or like how would they know, what information? 10 minutes, 10 to 15 minutes before we would, it would only take 10 minutes. So 10 to 15 minutes before they told me what it was that they were having an issue with.

And then usually, okay, boil down to feeling not worthy. And that's yeah, something works. Yeah, my podcast used to be called Empowered for Years, and now it's, I changed it to Worthy and Abundant because I want, because I recognize that worthiness is like the mental health crisis on the planet.

That's literally the core. To almost everything. And it's self love. It's connected with the self-love piece, right? Absolutely. Yeah. And my son had two friends that killed themselves too within a year of each other. One was a senior at college and he was 22 and smart and good looking. And and I have a, I'm just it's horrible.

They both were amazing boys and it's just, it's. It's a horrible situation there, but I feel like society and, probably good intention parents, caused, them to feel less than or something, like I agree. Yeah. And like I even used to feel so defining myself from my past or from my achievements, being in real estate, looking at all these other people doing more.

More listings, more cells, and oh, feeling bad about me. When it's perhaps it's like I was, this guitar being used as a planter when I'm supposed to be a teacher. You know what I mean? I do. Totally. It's gonna hit us and that's when we have to use the lessons we've learned. Yeah. Yeah. It's beautiful. So let's see. Talk about your books and, let's see. What are some daily practices or habits you recommend for maintaining emotional balance and connecting with your inner truth? You probably already know about earth grounding, right? A little bit. Yeah. Standing outside with.

Barefoot in, on the grass or in the ocean, on sand. You, oh, you're in Florida. So yeah. With anyone in Florida, they can go to the sand very easily and just feeling your feet and the energy of the earth, right as it as, as it's moving around and it. Gives you peace, it grounds you and centers you. And that's what we need a lot of is that feeling of being centered.

So that's in the book up in the air, by the way. So different techniques to get centered and one, another one is. If you're someone like you and me attacking energy fields like today when you were at that coffee, just one thing you could do is keep those energy fields around you. And then I use another word energy shields to protect me from the energy fields.

So I will use a clear energy shield or purple that's my favorite color. And I will have that. It will protect me, it will help me. And that's what I use. There's different things you can do. Different techniques. Yeah. But so you kind say a prayer and ask to be protected and shielded, like from taking on negative energies or releasing like leaking energy and different things.

Yeah. That's beautiful. Do you have any special diet that you can, like just curious, like vegan or? No I just, no, I don't. Okay. I try to eat, I try to eat healthy. Yeah, me too. Me too. I try to eat healthy. I just sometimes have sensitivity to animal products, but I do recognize the body. I do too. You do.

I do too. Yeah. You'll get a little depressed from eating meats, like after it's hard to go down. It's it I don't like it all. If I order like a hamburger lately, I too, I just can't eat it. Yeah. Some more fish. Yeah. Fish, chicken. I'll eat chicken. Okay. As long as it's cut up for me and it's gotta be like, I dunno, I'm very strange.

Can you describe a time when embracing your empathic nature led you to an unexpected growth or success? Yes, the books, absolutely. And meeting wonderful, lovely people like you. Thank you. Tell us about your books. Name, the books. There's, they're all spiritual, right? They are. You can call them spiritual, but they're also grounded in reality.

Who are you? Is Carl Young Myers Briggs. And also the Myers Briggs people took it over. So you get an idea if you take that quiz, what your type might be. And then at the Enneagrams, there are in that book Enneagrams. Yeah. And I believe in astrology. Neat. I have that in there as well.

And then I go into empaths. And narcissists, which I know a lot about, unfortunately. And highly sensitive people. And that, that, let's just finish up. That's who are you? And then dreamscapes is about the top 25 most common dreams we have. And it's a very important book I think, because it goes into our subconscious first and it takes what our dreams are from our subconscious, and then it takes the conscious.

What we remember or what we might feel afterward from that dream. And I do an overview of how it works together, how the subconscious and the conscious works together to cr to help you. And I talk about ways to help with that dream. Oh. And then the next one is, you are Not Alone. And that's my most personal book and that is about what I went through growing up.

And then it gets into it, it ends very positive on passions and all the passions we can find in our lives and gratitude. And but it does talk in the middle about birth order and about. About childhood trauma and it talks about bullying and it does, and then it goes into choices. And if we haven't been given that self-love early on, we might make the wrong choices.

So it really, I really want even younger people to read it because. I want them to make the right choices. So which one is that? That's called You're Not Alone, or which one? You are Not alone. Yeah. You are not alone. Yeah. That's, that is the book. That is kind of me. Like an inspiring memoir. Yes. Yes. And then you have up in the air, Uhhuh.

Okay. And that one is about philosophy psychology and spirituality's in there, spirituality is in, you are not alone. But right after I talk about the self-love and self-worth, I talk about spirituality and grace. It's extremely important to believe. I'm not saying you have to believe, but whatever you believe in your, whatever's higher power, something that you think is important.

Yeah it's important to accept that you're not alone in this universe and there are, and they know there will be many people like you, so you don't feel so alone. So yeah. That's beautiful. And then you have a couple other ones. Yeah. The last one's the illusion of perfection. And that's when to stop.

Who to say to yourself. Doesn't matter if I, my sales didn't work. It doesn't matter if someone thinks I'm really out, out Yeah. Out to lunch and I'm just, and it teaches you how to stay. Okay. And still stay loving yourself without needing to be perfect because humans are imperfect.

We are, we're not perfect and nope. And it really does share all of the ways and that, and also about like people who, if they are. Famous or whatever, then they can go through this period where they can, become an alcoholic or all kinds of things, because the expectations that are put on them are so high that, and then they have shame over that.

So there's just a lot. That book is a lot about saying it's perfectly imperfect. That's the subtitle of it, and it's perfectly fine. Yeah. We need to give ourselves grace. Yes. And we're doing the best we can. And it's kinda like that book, the Four Agreements, which is like a manual for life where you do the best you can with, however you're feeling that day.

And we're not gonna be on top every single day, it's just, yeah, it's about giving ourselves grace and my word of the year for 2025 was ease. Ah, love it. Yeah. So I definitely look at my calendar and think of what do I act actually have to do and what do I get to do or choose to do?

And just I'm just giving myself so much more ease and just knowing it's okay and I'm safe and you know I'm safe and just what's your Charlotte, what that, enjoying that, that ease, enjoying that. Thank you. Yeah, and just the older we get like caring less and less what other people think and yeah, so Good.

Absolutely. So what is your astrology, Karen? When is your birthday? So I have, my son is in Libra. What is yours? My son is Aries. Oh, we are the opposites, right? Yeah. But that's okay. That's good. Some of my best friends have been Aries. They're different than me. Yeah. The opposites attract, right? Yeah. In terms of, at least in terms of you, you can be strong.

You can be strong naturally, whereas a Libra is not quite as strong word. A lot of Libras want a charm. They wanna be liked. It's very important. So you gotta get that break out of that. And Aries Warrior the woman is what they call it. Yeah. And it's a little easier for that, you still have the same traumas, the same tough times.

Yeah. What's your moon? My moon is in Scorpio. Okay. My moon is Virgo and rising is Tous. Okay. So your Virgo and your Taurus are both earth signs. So you're pretty, you're, you under, you already are pretty centered I think most of the time it sounds like. And then with your sun sign, you.

That's a nice, that's a really good combination. I think my rising sign is, guess what, Aries. Oh wow. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah. Do you have your human design? Do you know? I'm not sure what you mean. Oh, I'm a generator. Human design. You go to my human design.com and it's your human design. It's the energy kind of version of astrology.

It's very interesting. You're gonna love it. Okay. Yay. I introduced you to something new. So I'm a generator and that makes total sense, but. Yeah, there's generator projector manifestor manifesting generator, and I think there's one other one I forgot, but yeah, you'll have to check that out. So I will, let's see.

In a world that often misunderstands empaths, what message do you want most to share with those on the path to living more worthy and abundant? Like I know. That's a perfect question. I think the path is not to completely isolate yourself because that's not good. I can do that easily too. And then I know I wanna break out of that and and so I do.

I break outta the box that I've put myself in and then I try hard to do new things and feel like I've helped someone that day. As soon as I help other people and I know I have 'cause they say I am walk, whatever I'm doing, wherever I am, then I feel your podcast name worthy and abundant. When I help, when I give.

That's that for me, that's the key to me. Oh, that's beautiful. Yeah, because oftentimes the opposite of depression is purpose and if you're down, go help someone else and you're gonna feel so much better. Yeah. Great. That's amazing. Having authored so many books, which lessons from your latest work do you hope resonate the most with readers?

Oh, that one is, don't try to be perfect. Don't, just under, by the end of the book, I think it'll give you a lot of information. Understand that trying to be perfect is an exercise in futility. No one's gonna get there. You're gonna keep trying and you're gonna just be depressed instead. Live in gratitude.

Understand that every day is a gift that we have, and when we're breathing and when we're okay and when the people we love are okay, then we need to stop there and give love, love to them, love to ourselves, and not make it into I'm not worthy of that. All of that's gone. We're not dealing with that.

That leads to that perfectionism and it's not healthy. No, it's not healthy. It's very unhealthy. And a lot of times, like maybe someone wants to write a book, but they're a perfectionist and it's like they're never gonna freaking put anything out there because it always has to be. You know what I mean?

That has, this has been beautiful conversation. Thank you so much. And I agree. Pardon? I agree with you. Yeah. And where would you like people to go to find everything and your books and everything? It's under Karen Blaine on Amazon, and they're all, it's in paperback and it's in eBooks also.

I'm doing some of the oh, I can't think of it right now. You know the, when you hear it on your car. Audio. Audio. Audio. That's, I couldn't get an audio. I'm doing some audio books because a lot of people told me, don't listen to that. So I'm like, okay, so I'm doing this. Oh, that's great. Yeah. I was looking at your website, eternal Empath, and I saw like that you post some of your interviews.

So we'll definitely, hopefully I'll send you the YouTube version of this. Thank you. Yeah, that would be great. This was nice. Very fun. This was amazing. Thank you so much. I'm so grateful to have you. And last question. Do you have a gratitude practice that you do daily? Yes. I wake up and I say thank you, God, because I do believe in God.

And I'll say thank you, God, right now everything is still. There's nothing I'm grateful I not taking anything away from people in the world that are having a really tough time, but I can't read the news all the time because it's just, that's devastating to me. So I just go to gratitude quickly and I say, thank you, God, I appreciate everything that I have my health.

My family's health, the people I love, my friends and and my aunt mostly. My, no, not mostly, but my dogs too. Yeah. I love my dog too. I always thank God too for him. Yeah, I have been practicing gratitude for, since the health condition in 11 and 12, and so I have literally been doing gratitude for. 13 years and that's wonderful.

I started lighting Shabbat candles at the same time. I'm Jewish. And Are you Jewish? Yes. Oh wow. That's so funny. Small world. And so I had to fight it with everything medicinal, herbal and spiritual and, gratitude and gratitude will heal you. It really does. It's that so hard to be angry if you're grateful, right?

Yes. Yes. Amazing. Karen, thank you so much and I'm grateful to have met you and we'll get this out very soon and I'll let you know and share all the links to find you in the show notes. Thank you so much. It was nice to talk to you. You too.