What happens when the healer gets tired?
We talk a lot about burnout.
We talk about boundaries, self-care, protecting your energy, and not becoming attached to other people's outcomes. But we don't talk enough about what it's actually like to spend your life caring deeply about other people's healing.
In this episode of Cacao Conversations, Julietta Wenzel and Dorice Ross have a raw conversation about something healers aren't always supposed to admit: sometimes we're tired.
We're tired of being expected to serve while being judged for charging enough to support ourselves. We're tired of watching gifted healers take second jobs, work endless hours, or undercharge because making money from spiritual or healing work is somehow considered less pure.
We're tired of healthcare practitioners being blamed for failing patients while they're working inside systems that leave little room for them to actually care for people. And sometimes we're tired because we care deeply about people who continually refuse to show up for themselves.
That doesn't mean we've stopped loving humanity. It means we're human too.
We talk about money and spirituality, healer burnout, Western medicine, the difference between service and sacrifice, attachment to outcomes, personal responsibility, and what happens when you care deeply about someone's healing while knowing you cannot heal them for them.
Because healers can teach you, guide you, challenge you, love you, and walk beside you. But we cannot spend our lives feeding your fire with pieces of ourselves.
At some point, your fire is yours to tend.
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Julietta Wenzel
Founder of Body & Soul Ministries
Instagram: @bodyandsoulministries
Dorice Ross
Elder of Body & Soul Ministries
Instagram: @rossdorice
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