Have you ever found yourself emotionally distraught or even physically sick after reading the news or scrolling social media?

You tell yourself to stay informed, to care... but it just feels like too much. One headline leaves you reeling. One opinion can feel like a personal attack. And yet, you know you can’t just turn it all off, because you want to help create a better way forward.

If you’re a sensitive or empathic person, you’re likely absorbing far more of this negative energy than you realize — not just from the people around you, but from the collective pain that saturates our current cultural discourse.

But what if this inner friction is actually an opportunity... not to escape, but to evolve?

What if your sensitivity, rather than being something to shield or suppress, is actually pointing you toward your deepest capacity for healing — for both yourself and the world ?

Dave Markowitz, bestselling author and intuitive healing facilitator, has worked with thousands of empaths and sensitive souls to transform pain into purpose. With three decades of experience, he’s known for his compassion and his practical, grounded tools for healing the energetic and emotional roots of illness, anxiety, and disconnection.

His work integrates profound intuitive insight with visualization practices, somatic experiences, energy healing, nervous system regulation, contemplation. .. helping people safely feel and release what they’ve unknowingly carried for years — often what wasn’t even theirs to begin with.

Dave will introduce his “Original Wounds Framework,” a powerful map of the four most formative abandonments we all experience in early life — the physical separation from our mother at birth, the perceived disconnection from Source as our ego forms, the emotional withdrawal of unconditional love in childhood, and the eventual abandonment of our authentic Self as we seek approval and belonging.

These foundational wounds quietly shape how we respond to messages of political and societal division — and understanding them can transform your inner experience from fear and anxiety to compassion and empowerment.

You’ll explore how these unhealed emotional wounds — individually and collectively — are being activated by the fracturing of our shared humanity. And you’ll discover that your empathic sensitivity is not something to protect from the world, but something to offer to it... once you know how to create and sustain emotional sovereignty.

You’ll also discover the phenomenon Dave calls “meshergy” — the way empaths unconsciously merge with the energies and fear patterns around them. You’ll learn how to identify when this happens and take the first steps toward reclaiming your energetic boundaries and clarity.

To help you embody these teachings, Dave will guide you through a profound experiential process — The Societal Mirror Integration — in which you’ll work with a triggering current event or public figure to uncover the personal wound it activates within you.

By the end of this process, you’ll feel more grounded, centered, and free. You’ll begin to experience societal chaos not as something that overwhelms you... but as a reflection that can awaken you.