3 Signs Your Child Is An Empath.

What’s an empath?

An empath is a sensitive soul who can sense, feel, and internalize the emotions, sounds, and smells of other people, animals, places, and things. Also known as Indigo, Crystal, and Starseed children, they are highly intuitive people who challenge the norm and have the uncanny ability to just “know.” They despise conflict and friends and family know them as “fixers.” But because empaths have a difficult time not caring, they are very responsible and tend to become emotional dumping grounds, which can leave them mentally and physically drained.

As a child, I didn’t quite understand why my body mirrored how others felt. Each time I mentioned it, the response was usually “Oh, you are just being sensitive,” or “Get over it.”

It took me until about the age 16 to understand that my sensitivity wasn’t because I was weak. It was quite the opposite. My vibrational level was super strong, and it allowed me to pick up on numerous frequencies that other people gave off.

How it starts and feels.

Empathic kids are known to have nervous body systems, and it usually starts when they are infants.

You see, every energy field has a “feel” to it. It doesn’t matter if the person is living or crossed over or whether the energy is an animal, archangel, or a Spirit Guide. Places also hold energy, including buildings, churches, cars, homes, hospitals, and yep—even land!

Think about it...

• Does your child express a “gut” feeling about something or someone?

• Does their behavior suddenly change before certain events such as crying, panic, nervousness, or stomach aches?

• Do their ears buzz?

If so, this may be their body vibration tuning into that specific frequency.

Three ways your child shows empathic abilities

1) Public places and items

Negative feelings: Extreme nausea, crying, headaches, and anxiety.

Positive feelings: Happy, euphoric, loving, fun, secure.

One of my earliest memories was my dad taking me to an antique store. I became so nauseated that I wanted to vomit. In the days that followed, I was haunted by unknown images, feelings, and sounds. Not only was I an empath, but a medium. To be frank, I had no idea what it was called nonetheless how to process it.

To this day, I can’t go antiquing, and I’m cautious at consignment stores. Why? Because every item contains an energy imprint of the original owner. Whether the energy is happy or sad, an empath is a sponge that absorbs that energy. It affects their aura (energy field).

Planning to go somewhere or have a guest coming? An empathic child will immediately pick up if it’s a positive or negative energy.

Most children have no idea what’s happening. When you ask them “what’s wrong?”, they might say “I don’t know” or start manifesting physical symptoms like a headache or stomach ache.

Write down their reactions to see if the symptoms go away after the event.

2) School

Negative feelings: Chronic anxiety, panic attacks, stomach and body aches, fight or flight, very little sleep, poor concentration, and few friends.

Positive feelings: Happy, secure, loved, camaraderie, high achievement.

Schools are the atom bomb of energy. Ask anyone, and they’ll tell you that school was either happy or traumatizing.

Because kids live with their hearts open, they pick up energies such as earthbound spirits roaming the halls, teachers (loving or negative), and the life burdens that other kids carry.

For me, the school energy was crushing. Each day my stomach churned, and I didn’t feel secure. This caused chronic anxiety, sick days, lousy concentration, and very few trusted friends.

Instead of getting to the root of issues, adults incorrectly label such children as ADHD or another acronym. Thanks to people such as Dr. Judith Orloff, we now know many of the labels are inaccurate.

In fact, studies show empaths are extremely intelligent, faster learners—and yes, they move on to higher education and become experts in their chosen field.

So before you allow lifelong educators to label your child, make sure you track any incidents to detect patterns.

3) Home

Negative feelings: Anxiety, sensitivity, fight or flight, and introversion.

Positive feelings: Happy, loved, kind, secure, euphoric, supported.

A sensitive soul’s home contains a universe of feelings!

Loving, calm environments are amazing, but tough, chaotic, and emotionally-charged environments are really challenging.

For example, I grew up in a tough, inner-city neighborhood where violence, drugs, and broken families were common. The neighborhood energy was dark, unsafe, and untrusting. I was also one of six kids, so the household was always energetically charged.

Although I was fortunate to have a very loving home, the surrounding energy heightened my anxiety and introverted nature, and I was always in fight or flight mode.

To help your child cope, try to beautify their surroundings with soothing art, music, pets, and books.

How to determine if your child is an empath.

I don’t believe in coincidences. If you’re reading this, chances are that your child or someone you know is dealing with empathic/intuitive abilities.

Dr. Judith Orloff offers a simple online test that can determine if your child is an empath.

Open and honest discussions with your child is always best. Remember, they’re intuitive, so don’t hide anything from them. They’ll know!

Start journaling events, how they felt, and the outcomes. It will be eye-opening. It’s also important to determine if your child is more than an empath by understanding 23 signs displayed by psychic children.

If they need help dealing with their emotions and intuitiveness, find another intuitive or a counselor that has experience dealing with psychic-mediums. 

To learn how to teach your empathic or psychic-medium child some self-protection techniques, my next follow-up blog piece will cover this.