The 6 Challenges of Being an Empath in the Bedroom - Intimacy Edition! 🌶️

Firstly being an empath is amazing and it’s your super power so never forget that!

However, if you haven’t fully embraced your sensitive nature and ability to work with your energy and regulate your emotions, being an empath can definitely create some challenges in more intimate settings with partners.

So if you have been experiencing some difficulties in the bedroom or in your relationships, this could be the missing piece!

1. **Overwhelm and Sensory Overload:**

Because  you are so sensitive you can become easily overwhelmed by intense emotions and physical sensations, even picking up the psychical sensations and emotions of your partner. Which as you can imagine, is at an all time high (oooft) during your most intimate moments. Feeling so much of your own stuff as well as your partner can lead to massive sensory overload and can stop you in your tracks before you even get started.

2. **Difficulty Setting Boundaries:**

Let’s be honest, you probably have struggled setting boundaries most of your life right? You probably always put your partner before yourself in every aspect?

Well, as amazing as it is for you to prioritise your partner’s pleasure …. What about yours??

Not being able to ask for what you want or to have your own emotional or psychical needs met in the way you want to can create a huge imbalance in the relationship and can leave you feeling dissatisfied and resentful! None of which are going to make for a happy and fulfilling relationship right?

3. **Absorbing Your Partner’s Emotions:**

 As an empath you are literally a human sponge for emotions, especially those that you are close to or intimate with. When you don’t know how to clear your energy and discern what’s not yours, you can easily absorb your partners emotions, including stress or anxiety.

 Which let’s be honest is an INSTANT mood killer! You may not even realise that’s what’s happened but you just can’t seem to relax or enjoy yourself at times in the bedroom.

 Just notice next time? Has your partner been stressed or anxious, because you may be taking it all on for them.

4. **Fear of Vulnerability:**

Oooh this is a good one! Whilst you gorgeous empaths crave depth and vulnerability, if you haven’t fully integrated your sensitivities you may actually struggle with your feelings and find it difficult to open up and connect deeply with your partner.

When you heal from the things that you fear about your emotions, then you can embrace your own depth of self, as well as your partners.

Without doing the inner work, you will continue to attract emotionally unavailable experiences.    

5. **Overthinking and Anxiety:**

You are a massive overthinker! Because you can feel the emotions and energy of your partner, you are constantly overanalysing situations or are worrying  excessively about how satisfied your partner is!

Whilst it’s great that you want your partner to have a yummy time with you, being in your head takes you out of your body and being present which will always lead to performance anxiety,  a massive decrease in your enjoyment…. and even sexual dysfunction.

Who the hell wants to be in their head when it’s time to be in the BODYYYYY!

6. **Difficulty Detaching:**

Ok so this is an important one I want all you empaths to listen closely to!

Every time you are intimate with someone you connect energetically and emotionally and transfer energy through DNA! (Yes this is a thing!)

And because you are like a sponge at the best of times, after intimate encounters you are going to find it incredibly challenging to detach from that person emotionally.

This leads to feelings of entanglement, obsessive thinking and emotional dependency.

So take this as a warning! Casual sex just ain’t going to work for you…

It’s important to protect your energy, and know the quality of the soul that you are choosing to connect with. PERIOD!

For you empaths to thrive in the bedroom, it’s important to work on self-awareness. Spend time reflecting on your emotions and identifying patterns in your reactions and recognize which emotions are yours and which belong to other people.

Set clear boundaries and practice self-care by learning to say no and prioritize your own needs without feeling guilty.

Cultivate emotional resilience by developing coping strategies to deal with strong emotions, such as journaling, talking with a friend or working with a healer or coach to help you heal past trauma.

Practice tuning into your intuition through meditation or reflective practices so you can learn to enhance and read energy from an empowered place for guidance and wisdom, instead of being overwhelmed by your senses.

Create grounding and energy clearing practices that you can do daily to support managing your energy.

By incorporating these practices into your life, you can harness your empathic abilities and create a more balanced and fulfilling life and relationship.

 If you are looking for 1:1 support to transform your sensitivities to your psychic super powers, heal your intimacy issues and become emotionally empowered in all areas of life, then book in a connection call to discuss my private spiritual mentorship program HERE!

Check out my podcast episode - “ The Empaths Guide to Relationships and Dating.”