The Empath Wound Ep. 2 | I Thought I Was Reading Energy—But I Was Reading Danger

The Healing Version Podcast · Sep 17, 2026 · 41m

Have you ever walked into a room and immediately known something was off?

The tone changed. The text got shorter. Their facial expression shifted. The energy felt different—and before anybody said a word, you noticed.

For years, I called that being an empath. And maybe it is. But healing forced me to ask a harder question:

How much of my ability to read people came from empathy—and how much came from learning that I needed to read people in order to feel safe?

In Episode 2 of The Empath Wound, we're getting into the connection between empathy, intuition, hypervigilance, and survival.

I talk…