When Your Body Says “Why Am I Here”? My Journey from Sensitive Empath to Soul to Soul- Led Healer
The Issue: You’ve always felt different. Bombarded by others’ energy, exhausted by what you can’t explain>Asking the question that has no easy answer: “Why am I here?”
The Problem: Without understanding your gifts as an empath and intuitive, your sensitivity becomes a burden. Leaking energy, absorbing others’ pain, and leaving you depleted, anxious, and unclear about your purpose.
The Solution: Awaken, claim, and embody your soul gifts. The unique intuitive abilities you were born with, so your sensitivity becomes your superpower rather than your struggle.
Key Insight: You weren’t born too sensitive. You were born exactly right for the work you’re here to do.
Growing Up as an Empath
At the age of 16, I was standing on the 2nd floor of the 1849 high school, after a math class, looking out onto the brick courtyard, framed by statues.
My anxious thoughts were circling, “Why am I here? “
I didn’t have an answer, and that deep longing left me in the void, and brought tears to my eyes.
Being emotional was my normal, but in that moment, the sobbing came right from the depths of my core.
It hit me, like a ton of bricks – I just didn’t know the reason I was here.
For many decades, I struggled, fumbling along, until I took the right steps that helped me move closer to my aligned path.
When your Gift becomes a Burden
I’d felt bombarded by the energy of others, which left me feeling overwhelmed, anxious and depressed. Even getting out of bed in the morning, the exhaustion weighed me down. I wonder if you have felt the same way.
This is classic nervous system overload for empaths and sensitives. Your body is absorbing more than it can process.
I didn’t have boundaries that kept me safe; my energy leaked out to others. I didn’t realise I was healing those around me and the planet, which is why I was so depleted. This depletion lives in your cells. Cellular healing begins the moment you start working with your gifts rather than against them.
I judged my lack of energy, “What’s wrong with me?”
What I didn’t realise at that time was that I was an empath, a sensitive, an intuitive…
I was born that way.
Have you experienced something similar? Maybe that’s where you are.
Perhaps you’ve even felt uncertain, discouraged, unclear and feel unsupported?
But NOW, after much searching and work, I know how to harness and use the strengths of my abilities and have fully claimed my soul gifts.
If you recognise yourself in this story, the sensitivity and the overwhelm. The knowing you’re here for something more. These posts will help you go deeper:
🌿 7 Psychic Awakening Signs — understanding what your body is telling you 🌿 Intuitive Neurodiverse Powers — your sensitivity is a sacred gift 🌿 Are You a Modern Day Medicine Woman? — recognising your calling 🌿 Elevate Your Super Powers — activating your gifts.
The Turning Point- Claiming Your Soul Gifts
My purpose is to guide others on their healing pathway.
All the challenges I experienced in my life, have been essential to awakening my abilities, and have expanded my capacity to help and transform others.
My destined path is to use my high-value gifts and support you in unlocking your gifts, healing yourself, others, animals, and the environment. Would you like to do the same thing?
When you discover your path, it fills you with joy, it lights you up from the inside out! And this is what I want for you.
Every soul has at least one special gift that lights up their heart with love! Together, we can find it.
When you understand your soul, your divine origin, you can go into that state, and you are changed forever. You will be engaged on that level, which brings play, creativity and joy.
When you’re not connected to your soul purpose, your mind can be filled with fear, scattered, distracted, and confused. You’ll be dissociated from your own truth.
However, when you partner with your soul’s purpose, you can’t waver. You stay steady in your own strength, your sacred power emerges to guide you forward.
My gifts didn’t come with an instruction manual, so I created a step-by-step process to guide others back on their destined path.
If you’re ready to stop struggling with your sensitivity and start working with your gifts, read the FAQ to learn how I guide empaths and intuitives through the Alkymia Method™, then book your session when you feel ready.”
If you recognise yourself in this story and you’re ready to awaken, claim, and embody your own soul gifts? Explore my AWAKEN YOUR SOUL GIFTS IN 90 DAYS
This is the work I wish I’d had at 16.
Using your gifts is essential to supporting yourself and actualising your Life Purpose, which will open new doors of opportunity and possibility.
You’ll be able to embody your authentic self and live an abundant, inspiring, and harmonious life. Feel more optimism, enthusiasm, and energy, with clarity and the power to live from your gifts and YOUR potential.
With radiant love and steady presence,
Rise, Remember, Radiate ❤️
Mariangela Parodi BAppSc, ND
Mariangela Parodi BAppSc, ND is a Naturopath & Energy Healer based in Hobart, Tasmania. Specialising in nervous system recovery for women when exhaustion, overwhelm, or depletion no longer responds to rest. With over 30 years of experience in biomedical science, naturopathy, energy medicine, and shamanic healing. She bridges science and spirit to restore the body’s innate intelligence and rewrite the cellular blueprint.
The creator of the Alkymia Method™, a sacred fusion of naturopathy, energy medicine, and shamanic healing. #1 international bestselling author of The Mystic Woman’s Compass. Mariangela guides heart-centred healers and conscious leaders to transmute exhaustion, illness, and spiritual disconnection into sovereignty, vitality, and luminous purpose.
ATMS Fellow | Spiritual Biz Award Recipient | Featured in Aspire Magazine, Canvas Rebel, Hobart Magazine & Spiritual Biz Magazine | The Legends Series Podcast. Hobart & Online | alkymia.com.au
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When you’re ready to embody your luminous potential, you can join a group healing course or work privately with me to integrate the next evolution of your healing gifts.
>These experiences merge science, shamanism, and soul, awakening vitality, sovereignty, and radiance.
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