Nurturing An Empathetic Child
- Emma
- Sep 27
- 6 min read
Updated: Oct 30
Learning all we can about how best to identify, nurture, and support our empathetic children is extremely important. As parents, teachers, aunties, grandparents, and guardians, we play a crucial role in helping them move through life self-assured. This way, they can understand and express their truth, sharing their unique gifts and talents with confidence.
Understanding Empathy in Children
We are all born highly intuitive, telepathic, psychic, and naturally attuned to our own energy fields. These innate capabilities are often overlooked or dulled by modern food, medicine, and lifestyles. As a result, sensitive souls can feel misunderstood by society, often feeling out of place or even lost within the so-called ‘normal’ world.
Empaths are profoundly attuned to the feelings of others as well as their own. They instinctively know when someone is not ‘okay.’ They can often sense or even foresee events, shifts, or imbalances within another before they fully unfold. These intuitive knowings may arise with someone in their close circle, during a brief interaction with others, or even from the subtle energy of a passer-by on the street.
Without guidance and encouragement to safely express what they see, sense, and feel, this gift can become confusing—especially for children (and for us adults too, until we choose to explore and understand ourselves more deeply).
The Journey of Empathetic Children
Many of us are born deeply empathetic. The sooner we can understand and honour what we see, sense, and feel, the smoother our life journey becomes. Throughout my life, I have often heard, ‘You’re too sensitive.’ In truth, I’m not ‘too’ anything—I’m highly sensitive, intuitive, and clairsentient.
I experience the physical and emotional pain, confusion, and even ailments of others as if they were my own. Today, that no longer overwhelms me because I understand what’s happening. I am grateful for the ability to recognise when sensations in my body, mind, or emotions belong to someone else. I can release them instead of taking them on as my own.
Let’s shout it from the rooftops: the next empathetic generation - already here with us now - deserve to recognise, release, and thrive, no matter what energies they encounter or carry. Children are our future, and those often ‘diagnosed’ with ADHD, ADD, Autism, and more are, in truth, enlightened, awake souls operating at a frequency far beyond what society is accustomed to.
Too often, they are gravely misunderstood and unnecessarily medicated, harming not only their future but that of the world. By learning to work with the energy within and around you, you can better embrace them—and yourself—to evolve, expand, and uplift life for all.
Signs of Empathy in Young Children From as early as nine months old, children begin to show signs of empathy. You can often see it in how they respond to and behave around others. Sensitive children absorb more than most: other people’s energies, reactions, and even the atmosphere of the spaces they’re in. This can leave them feeling drained, unsettled, and overwhelmed.
If not recognised and uplifted, these experiences may later appear as withdrawal or antisocial behaviour. The child may choose solitude over groups simply because the emotional input feels too intense or exhausting. Adults can unintentionally make things harder for sensitive children. This is why it’s so important to go through your own healing journey, learning all you can about guiding them.
The Challenge of Emotions for Empaths
One of the most challenging emotions for empaths is anger—whether expressed by others or due to living in the confusion of misunderstanding themselves. Without tools to master what they’re feeling, the bewilderment of taking on so much can turn anxiety into anger.
Energetically, anger can create an exchange where our unresolved issues spill into someone else’s field, or theirs into ours. This dynamic can feel toxic or heavy if we don’t know how to clear and protect our energy field.
Loneliness is prevalent amongst empaths, who may prefer to be alone rather than deal with the minefield of emotions they pick up around people. I remember going to sit down at the end of the garden behind the bonfire as a child. This intensified the loneliness and fear, but at least I did not have to deal with the emotions of others. The more we awaken, the more our coping mechanisms are elevated.
One emotion I cannot tolerate is violent films (or violence anywhere). It represents unnecessary pain inflicted on another, even if it is made-up or part of a video game. I know many empaths feel the same way.
Coping Mechanisms for Empaths
For many empaths, the overwhelm of external emotions can lead to anxiety, addictions, or numbing through substances. I once turned to alcohol in difficult situations, hoping to quiet what I could see, sense, and feel. Yet it only heightened my vulnerability. Alcohol, caffeine, and other altering substances can leave empaths wide open to darker energies, draining their light and creating cycles of despair or self-doubt.
This is why it’s so important we guide younger souls to understand and honour their sensitivities early. They can navigate life empowered rather than overwhelmed.
Synchronistically, this quote showed up when writing this blog: if you have not been able to do the work before having or looking after little ones, then NOW is the perfect time.
If you discovered spirituality and began healing past trauma or ancestral patterns before becoming a parent—wonderful. Yet if that awakening comes later, it’s just as valuable. Every step you take now helps break cycles of fear, stress, and inherited patterns, ensuring they’re not unconsciously passed down. Children who have faced difficult upbringings may sometimes overcompensate with their own children or project unhealed wounds onto others. True healing dissolves these cycles.
Reclaiming Spiritual Practices
For too long, spiritual practices have been hidden or dismissed—suppressed by religious dogma and overshadowed by the pharmaceutical industry’s grip on human well-being. The tide is shifting. Together, we can reclaim these practices, transform our lives, and reshape the futures of our children and their children to come.
📚 There are many books, courses, podcasts, blogs, and films to empower this journey as you build your knowledge for Nurturing an empathetic child.
One powerful practice that can make a real difference is learning to work with the energies of the Moon cycles. Notice and track how you and your family feel in the week before and after each phase. Pay attention to which shifts affect you most. Mark the dates on a calendar to stay aware of the energetic tides and their impact on moods, reactions, and inner states. You’ll find the remaining 2025 dates here: Moon Calendar. By sharing this awareness with your empathetic child, you give them tools to grasp, honour, and skilfully manage their sensitivities.
Tips for Raising Empathic Children 🌸
Teach healthy boundaries - they cannot (and should not) try to make everyone happy.
Cultivate expansive self-love - who and what they are is divinely unique.
Protect & cleanse energy - show them how to release what isn’t theirs after basic and tough interactions. Frequent Quantum Energy Healing sessions assist massively to cleanse, clear, and transmute energy blockages.
Acknowledge sensitivities - sights, sounds, smells, emotions; honour their deeper perception and be open and honest with them.
Birth & early attachments matter - validate grounding and security; Mentoring can help reset patterns before they become life habits.
Practice daily grounding - walking barefoot in nature, having regular Innerdance sessions to regulate the nervous system with sound and energy work, teaching their system to remain calm within chaos; QEH; meditation; breathwork.
Encourage emotional intelligence in schools - empathy management is vital for the next generation.
Watch for physical symptoms - headaches, tummy aches, or fatigue often reflect absorbed emotions.
Help them express feelings - guide them to share openly so they don’t carry others’ stress and can tell you what they ‘see’ via dreams, sightings, etc.
Recognise trauma roots - their empathy may come from deep soul-level experiences.
Give extra love & affection - hugs, listening, compassion—safe spaces to feel everything.
Teach intention-setting - starting the day with focus to empower and uplift them.
There is always more to discover and learn; it’s an ongoing journey. The earlier you can witness and guide empathetic children, the better.
One of the biggest confusions for these sensitive souls is believing everyone experiences the world as they do. They struggle to understand why others cannot sense the pain, fear, or hurt they perceive. Learning to navigate and honour these gifts is the key forward. It is a blessing, not a curse. With nurturing, acknowledgment, and encouragement, these abilities can flourish rather than being forced to fit the “norm” of society.
'I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside' ~ Whitney Houston
If you are interested in mentoring, quantum healing for yourself or your child, or learning energy mastery to better perceive, comprehend, and respond to the sensitivities in your family, please get in touch/book directly online. We are in this together.
I have updated the original article Nurturing An Empathetic Child from 2022 to help you in the here and now with energetic awareness, conscious parenting, and self-mastery. I welcome you to share your experiences so we can empower empathetic, sensitive souls, allowing us all to blossom and thrive.
Big Love, Namaste
Emma 🐉
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