Understanding Empaths with Karen Pizza: Are You One Too?

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Like no, no, no, it's just like who is. 

Rich Bennett 1:01
She's back. Oh, I felt like what was that movie? Poeter Guys? 

Karen Pizza 1:08
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 1:08
Yeah, the little girl I think. Yeah, it looks in the TV. 

Karen Pizza 1:11
Oh, yeah, 

Rich Bennett 1:11
is back. And she is. I got Karen P's on and we're 

Karen Pizza 1:15
your age 

Rich Bennett 1:16
going to 

Karen Pizza 1:17
say 

Rich Bennett 1:19
jungle. I could have said something like 

Karen Pizza 1:21
blackboard 

Rich Bennett 1:21
blackboard jungle. 

Karen Pizza 1:23
What? 

Rich Bennett 1:24
That's older from like the 50s. 

Karen Pizza 1:26
You're older than you. 

Rich Bennett 1:27
Okay, by two years. Two years, I'll be 62. Shit. Next month in June. 

Karen Pizza 1:36
Okay, so a year and a couple months. I'll be 61 

Rich Bennett 1:40
August. 

Karen Pizza 1:40
in 

Rich Bennett 1:41
Okay. So when you say that I'm older, you make it sound like I'm 20, 30, 40 years older than you. 

Karen Pizza 1:48
You just looked that way. 

Rich Bennett 1:49
No. It's 

Karen Pizza 1:51
that's because you served our country. You're a Marine. So happy Memorial Day early. 

Rich Bennett 1:55
No, happy Veterans Day. Memorial Day is for the ones that have fallen. 

Karen Pizza 2:00
Veterans 

Rich Bennett 2:01
days, 

Karen Pizza 2:02
I know that. Oh my, my father's rolling this grade. 

Rich Bennett 2:06
My father 

Karen Pizza 2:07
was a Marine. My father was a marine in World War 2. 

Rich Bennett 2:08
So Oh, really? 

Karen Pizza 2:09
Oh, yeah, 17 years older than the South Pacific. 

Rich Bennett 2:12
Oh, wow. That's one of the reason I don't ever forget. When I went to sign up and brought the papers to my father went ballistic because he was going in the 

Karen Pizza 2:23
Navy. 

Rich Bennett 2:25
Um, 

Karen Pizza 2:25
oh, no, he, his, he was 17. His mother had to sign the papers. 

Rich Bennett 2:29
Mm hmm. Well, yeah, my mom and dad went inside for 

Karen Pizza 2:32
And 

Rich Bennett 2:32
me. 

Karen Pizza 2:33
he, um, 'cause this is World War 2. Yeah. And he was over in Bougainville. 

Rich Bennett 2:37
Oh, wow. 

Karen Pizza 2:38
There's like one of the deadliest fights In the South Pacific, it's 17. 

Rich Bennett 2:42
there was. Wow. 

Karen Pizza 2:43
It's crazy. 

Rich Bennett 2:43
All right, so we're, we're not talking about Crystal Reiki this time. We're, well, 

Karen Pizza 2:48
maybe directly. 

Rich Bennett 2:50
Okay, you're gonna, let me make sure, don't say the word. I want to make sure I say it right. We're going to find out what it empath is, right? Does he? 

Karen Pizza 3:00
Yes, you said it right. 

Rich Bennett 3:01
All right, so what the hell is an empath? 

Karen Pizza 3:05
It does relate to Crystal Reiki 

Rich Bennett 3:06
Karen. 

Karen Pizza 3:07
with 

Rich Bennett 3:07
I knew that. I was just touching 

Karen Pizza 3:08
I figured because I see a lot of people who are empaths. So what an empath is is someone who not only can pick up other people's feelings, but actually feel them themselves. So for instance, like you could be a very, you are a very empathetic 

Rich Bennett 3:26
you. Okay, 

Karen Pizza 3:26
person. 

Rich Bennett 3:26
you're right. 

Karen Pizza 3:26
You can understand someone's in a situation. You understand how they feel. An actual empath will feel those feelings. So if you're around someone who's anxious, you start to feel anxious. You're around someone who's sad. You start to feel sad. 

Rich Bennett 3:43
Okay, so like when you're, because when you are on before you were talking about when you were doing the Crystal Reiki, how when you're pulling those toxins out of the people, you're feeling as 

Karen Pizza 3:53
yeah. 

Rich Bennett 3:54
well. 

Karen Pizza 3:54
Correct. 

Rich Bennett 3:54
Oh 

Karen Pizza 3:55
So I pretty much are born without ability, but most the majority of people I see for some reason I see a lot of empaths, but I really do think it's the universe sending on my way because I can help. 

Rich Bennett 4:10
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 4:10
It's, I didn't know I was an empath or probably eight years ago when I started doing all this reiki stuff. And I tell you what, my childhood, my teenage years, made perfect sounds after that. 

Rich Bennett 4:23
Did you ever think about going to school for therapy? 

Karen Pizza 4:26
I need it. 

Rich Bennett 4:27
No, no, not to become a therapist. 

Karen Pizza 4:30
Well, here's the funny thing. A lot of, I work with several therapists, 

Rich Bennett 4:37
okay, 

Karen Pizza 4:38
who refer their people to me, 

Rich Bennett 4:40
okay, 

Karen Pizza 4:40
because the idea is when you see a therapist, the therapist can only help you with what you tell them. 

Rich Bennett 4:46
Right. 

Karen Pizza 4:46
So, you know, a therapist says, oh, how was your childhood? Oh, it was great. I had wonderful parents. 

Rich Bennett 4:53
And 

Karen Pizza 4:53
the meantime, your dad was beaten to crap out of mom every other night. 

Rich Bennett 4:56
Right. 

Karen Pizza 4:57
The therapist doesn't know that. 

Rich Bennett 4:59
Not until they, 

Karen Pizza 5:00
she can't work with it. So, but with the raky, I can actually see what's going on and see 

Rich Bennett 5:05
uh, 

Karen Pizza 5:05
that, oh they didn't. So what, what we're doing, this is Since 

Rich Bennett 5:09
you don't have to go to school for as long to 

Karen Pizza 5:11
I don't, 

Rich Bennett 5:11
become a licensed therapist either. 

Yeah. 

Okay. 

Right 

Karen Pizza 5:23
what they're doing is they're referring their clients to me. 

Rich Bennett 5:26
Okay. 

Karen Pizza 5:27
Because some, some clients don't remember. They literally, 

Rich Bennett 5:30
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 5:30
and that's a trauma response. So that's scientifically proven, psychologically proven, whatever, that people who don't remember their childhood or certain 

Rich Bennett 5:38
Which 

Karen Pizza 5:38
incidents. 

Rich Bennett 5:38
is when most of the trauma caused from this childhood. Well, actually they say from the womb to eat, 

Karen Pizza 5:43
Yes. 

Rich Bennett 5:43
as usually when you experienced trauma, which stays like hidden in the back of your mind, 

Karen Pizza 5:49
or somewhere in your body. 

Rich Bennett 5:51
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 5:51
And 

Rich Bennett 5:52
Wow. 

Karen Pizza 5:52
so with the raky, we can actually pull that trauma up and get rid of it. So once we get it and acknowledge it, get rid of it, then they go back to their therapists. And 

Rich Bennett 6:04
Okay. 

Karen Pizza 6:04
so this is what happened. So basically we pulled out the therapist helped, smooth the edges. 

Rich Bennett 6:09
Okay. So technically you're, or besides doing the raky. I don't even know if it's a word, but if it's not, it is now because I'm gonna say, you're an empathologist. 

Is that a word? 

Karen Pizza 6:23
that? I don't think that's a word, 

Rich Bennett 6:25
What 

Karen Pizza 6:25
but we'll 

Rich Bennett 6:25
is 

Karen Pizza 6:25
go with it. 

Rich Bennett 6:26
Yeah. I think you all put it on your business cards, because you think about it. You know, what's an empathologist 

Karen Pizza 6:34
Well, but the thing is, you being amazed how many people are empaths, just 

Rich Bennett 6:39
and don't 

Karen Pizza 6:39
normal everyday 

Rich Bennett 6:40
know. 

Karen Pizza 6:40
people. 

Rich Bennett 6:40
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 6:41
We're not talking people who specialize in raky or therapist. We're just talking normal people walking the streets. Their kids. I can't tell you how many teenagers and the youngest I've seen was a nine year old girl. That 

Rich Bennett 6:55
really 

Karen Pizza 6:55
is an empath that her parents. The doctor suggested they see a psychiatrist that they put her on meds because she was anxious and stressed all the time. Like literally all the time. And Well, from just from everything and her, 

Rich Bennett 7:11
Wow. 

Karen Pizza 7:11
her parents, her mom, I think it was. I can't remember, had said a talk to somebody. He said, Oh, take her to Karen. Let's see what Karen sees. So the girl came in. I mean, we have a whole, I have a whole list here. I can tell you of different examples of what it, what you can do as an empath. 

Rich Bennett 7:28
Right. 

Karen Pizza 7:28
So I saw I see these people. We figure out their empaths. And I, we help clear their aura. We 

Rich Bennett 7:35
Right. 

Karen Pizza 7:35
just a reminder. Our is just that that energy field around your body. So what happens is normally for most people, you know, we have our aura, our bubble, whatever you want to call it. Scientifically, it's been proven that we all have one. You walk past somebody, they just kind of brush off no big deal. But when you're an empath, what happens is that person's energy comes inside of your aura. So you're taking on their feelings, their emotions. 

Rich Bennett 8:02
Wow. 

Karen Pizza 8:02
Yeah. But you don't know, it's a half time. You feel like you're bipolar because you're perfectly happy. And next minute, you're anxious and you don't know why 

Rich Bennett 8:10
right. 

Karen Pizza 8:12
So the young girls that have come in, especially girls, they brought in, and we've been able to figure out, yes, our empaths. We cleared them out. And then I teach them how to block and how to keep everybody else's energy outside of their aura. And they go on about their lives. And it's, I have a sauce spot for younger girls just because I've always been an empath and didn't know it. And looking back at my childhood, my teenage years, if I would have known, it would have made a complete difference. 

Rich Bennett 8:44
Alright. So we're working on these, on these young girls or anybody, especially if you being an empath and they're an empath, but may not know it. Do you, what you're feeling also convert over to them? 

Karen Pizza 9:00
It could just, but I, while while while I'm working on blocking, 

Rich Bennett 9:06
I block Okay, 

Karen Pizza 9:06
I have it already blocked. I block now that I know I'm an empath. I've learned how to block it. So I'm pretty much blocked all the time. As far as blocked is for us, taking on other people's emotions. I mean, I can still 

Rich Bennett 9:17
How long did you did take you to learn how to do that? 

Karen Pizza 9:21
Probably working on it probably about a year because no one ever taught me I had to figure that out on my own 

Rich Bennett 9:27
really. 

Karen Pizza 9:27
And so that's why I have a sauce spot for people who are empaths because no one taught me I had to figure it out. Where now I have a client come in and it's really interesting because I'll be working on them touching their body or whatever. And I'll get certain feelings in my hands that give me indication that they're an empath. 

Rich Bennett 9:46
Right. 

Karen Pizza 9:47
.. it's like a tingling I get er, whatever, or and then when I go to work on their shop-rows, which are the energy centres down the spine, if they're an empath, that's full of other people's gunk, which is my professional term for it. 

Rich Bennett 10:16
8 

Karen Pizza 10:17
years now. 

Rich Bennett 10:18
Is that all? 

Karen Pizza 10:19
Yeah, 

yeah, it's- and the my abilities and it's as far as how far I've taken it is just crazy to me. I 

Rich Bennett 10:31
mentioned there's different types of empaths. All right, so what are these 

Karen Pizza 10:35
types 

Rich Bennett 10:35
different 

Karen Pizza 10:35
of people? So well, number one, the first thing is that for people wanting to know, woah, am I an empath? I know I'm an empathic, am I an empath? There is some signs that you're an empath. One is you get easily overwhelmed. You have an extremely strong intuition, you know, that gut instinct? 

Rich Bennett 10:53
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 10:54
If you have a gut instinct that has never been wrong, chances are you're an empath. Like, even if things on paper look like, oh, I should do this, but you're gut saying no? 

Rich Bennett 11:04
Right, interesting. 

Karen Pizza 11:05
Yeah, uh, hate crowds. Like if you're in a large crowd of people, 

Rich Bennett 11:10
you 

Karen Pizza 11:11
are just overwhelmed, you get exhausted. 

Rich Bennett 11:13
A lot of people just say that's social anxiety. 

Karen Pizza 11:16
It's highly sensitive to things, you need dress, you need some private time. 

You people tell you their problems. You'll be in the grocery store and the cashier while you're checking out has basically told you her whole life story. 

Rich Bennett 11:34
Should that happens to 

Karen Pizza 11:35
me all the time. Yeah, you're probably an empath. 

Rich Bennett 11:37
People always tell me 

Karen Pizza 11:39
problems. 

Rich Bennett 11:39
their 

Karen Pizza 11:39
And it's always a problem. Yeah. They dump 

Rich Bennett 11:41
Yeah. I always saw it was because which did come in handy when I used to be a bartender 

Karen Pizza 11:46
them all. Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 11:47
because as a bartender, that's one that's one. Well, if you go to school, that's one of the things they teach you, which I always thought that to be a bartender, you should have the good If you're a bartender, you should have the good 

Karen Pizza 11:58
a bartender, 

Rich Bennett 11:58
college 

Karen Pizza 11:58
you 

Rich Bennett 11:59
to become 

Karen Pizza 11:59
should have the good college to become a 

Rich Bennett 11:59
Just 

Karen Pizza 11:59
bartender. 

Rich Bennett 12:00
as well, 

Karen Pizza 12:00
right. 

Rich Bennett 12:01
I'm sorry. Go 

Karen Pizza 12:02
No, 

Rich Bennett 12:02
ahead. 

Karen Pizza 12:03
but you're right. It's 

Rich Bennett 12:05
it's wow. 

Karen Pizza 12:06
It's because you're picking up so many different motions, you are highly sensitive to sounds, to smells, to sensations, like you will pick up someone's perfume or whatever. And it will bother you. That's most other people maybe don't even smell it. Because you are more than likely, and this was was me, told on a record basis, you're too sensitive. 

Rich Bennett 12:30
Okay, with that, 

does that also because there are things I'll smell a lot from people that have passed. 

Karen Pizza 12:42
For 

Rich Bennett 12:42
example, there's times I can smell those winch esters that my father used to 

Karen Pizza 12:46
smell. 

Rich Bennett 12:47
There's times I can smell my brother T. Bo so is that this. 

Karen Pizza 12:51
That's a whole, that's a whole another podcast. 

Rich Bennett 12:53
Okay, all right, never mind then. 

Karen Pizza 12:55
That's a whole another, yeah. 

Rich Bennett 12:56
It's weird, there are some sense where 

Karen Pizza 12:59
that's envisiting 

Rich Bennett 13:00
People, 

Karen Pizza 13:00
you. 

Rich Bennett 13:01
no, but I mean with that people are wearing and it just. And it stays with you forever. 

Karen Pizza 13:07
Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 13:07
One of the weird things I could still 

Karen Pizza 13:10
yeah. 

Rich Bennett 13:10
sense, like when I had the beer we used to do the, we did a fundraiser, getting the pie into face, which is just. 

Karen Pizza 13:16
Right, 

Rich Bennett 13:17
whipped cream. And now with ever I have whipped cream and get some, it's just that weird. And it's nasty. 

Karen Pizza 13:24
It's 

Rich Bennett 13:25
nasty. 

Karen Pizza 13:26
So it's yeah, so people tell you their problems. You have a high sensitivity sounds and smells. You often feel like you don't fit in, because even though you were attuned to other people's feelings, hard to relate to others 

Rich Bennett 13:40
it's 

Karen Pizza 13:40
sometimes. It's like a lot of times you feel bipolar, like you're happy and then you're sad. And then it's like, what is wrong with 

Rich Bennett 13:47
Is 

Karen Pizza 13:47
me? 

Rich Bennett 13:47
the people around you? 

Karen Pizza 13:48
Yeah, it's the people around you. You tend to isolate, you have a hard time setting boundaries with people. 

Rich Bennett 13:57
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 13:57
Because you want your people please or you want to help everybody make it all better. Yeah. It's, 

Rich Bennett 14:04
so I may be an empath. 

Karen Pizza 14:07
You'll be the first, you would be the first 

Rich Bennett 14:09
You're 

Karen Pizza 14:09
one. 

Rich Bennett 14:10
before me. 

Karen Pizza 14:10
So I just don't call myself that. Yeah, it's, it's difficult, like I said, because you'll, you'll be talking to someone. And you just, you just don't understand like people say you're sensitive or you can't News you can't watch, you can't, nobody can nowadays, but even in, like movies that are based on true 

Rich Bennett 14:33
watch. 

Karen Pizza 14:33
stories 

Rich Bennett 14:33
Right. 

Karen Pizza 14:34
that are sad or whatever, like literally like black hawk down. 

Rich Bennett 14:39
Yeah, I get pissed. Really. 

Karen Pizza 14:40
Well, I saw it prior to knowing I was an empath only movie in my entire life. I walked out of it. I could not handle it. I felt like I was there. 

Rich Bennett 14:51
Wow. 

Karen Pizza 14:52
And it was the only time ever that I ever literally walked out. And I didn't know why. I just knew that I was physically ill. 

Rich Bennett 14:59
See, and I think with that, 

Karen Pizza 15:01
you can relate to it. 

Rich Bennett 15:03
because I can, 

Karen Pizza 15:03
You've lived it. 

Rich Bennett 15:04
I mean, but there are, I mean, there are some, like, some movies that I have to stop watching because it either, I mean, they're like scared out of my mind or just so damn sad or pissed. 

Karen Pizza 15:21
Do you feel what they're feeling? 

Rich Bennett 15:23
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 15:23
That's an empath. 

Rich Bennett 15:25
How me damn are there books about this? 

Karen Pizza 15:27
Oh yeah, Google. You can 

Rich Bennett 15:28
Google 

Karen Pizza 15:29
Google if 

Rich Bennett 15:29
it. 

Karen Pizza 15:29
you you can Google literally I this morning before I came out. I was I googled it again just to see what you know the internet says about it. And like there's a whole empath quiz you can take. 

Rich Bennett 15:42
Really? 

Karen Pizza 15:42
Yeah. I brought I brought it with me. 

Rich Bennett 15:44
Oh, so you going to quiz me? I 

Karen Pizza 15:45
can 

Rich Bennett 15:46
you quiz you yeah quiz me 

Karen Pizza 15:47
quiz 

Rich Bennett 15:47
this can be fun 

Karen Pizza 15:47
Okay, so you keep track of how many you get how many yeses? Just you can use your fingers. 

Rich Bennett 15:52
Okay, 

Karen Pizza 15:53
Oh 

Rich Bennett 15:53
how many yeses so this is just you yes now 

Karen Pizza 15:56
yes. No, 

Rich Bennett 15:56
Okay, 

Karen Pizza 15:56
okay. 

Rich Bennett 15:57
I've never counted die pass three 

Karen Pizza 15:59
I'll you wait we can use my fingers 

Rich Bennett 16:01
Or 

Karen Pizza 16:02
take your shoes off you 

Rich Bennett 16:03
your 

Karen Pizza 16:03
can use 

Rich Bennett 16:04
So number 

Karen Pizza 16:06
Have I been labeled as overly sensitive shy or introverted 

Rich Bennett 16:12
So anytime in my life. 

Karen Pizza 16:14
Mm-hmm. 

Rich Bennett 16:15
Oh, yeah, absolutely. 

Karen Pizza 16:16
So there's one 

Rich Bennett 16:17
Okay, 

Karen Pizza 16:17
do I frequently get overwhelmed or anxious? 

Rich Bennett 16:21
Not anymore you still, but nothing more 

Karen Pizza 16:24
do arguments are yelling make me ill 

Rich Bennett 16:30
It's you mean like sick to the stomach. No, 

Karen Pizza 16:34
do I often feel like I don't fit in 

Rich Bennett 16:36
Sometimes 

Karen Pizza 16:37
and my drain by crowds and need a loan time to revive myself 

Rich Bennett 16:41
Sometimes 

Karen Pizza 16:42
and my overstimulate it by noise odors or nonstop talkers. Yes Do I have chemical sensitivities or can't tolerate scratchy clothes? 

Like the screen you were just talking about in the face. 

Rich Bennett 16:57
Oh, yes 

Karen Pizza 16:59
Do I prefer taking my own car places so I can leave early if I need 

Rich Bennett 17:03
to yes 

Karen Pizza 17:04
Do I overeat to cope with stress? 

Rich Bennett 17:06
No, no anymore Yeah 

Karen Pizza 17:10
Am I afraid of becoming suffocated by intimate relationships? 

Rich Bennett 17:13
No, I 

Karen Pizza 17:14
Couldn't imagine that with you though, so I don't have that problem either. I'm an empath, but that doesn't bother me Do I start all easily? Yes 

Do I react strongly to caffeine 

Rich Bennett 17:26
or medications? No 

Karen Pizza 17:28
Do I have a low pain threshold? 

Rich Bennett 17:30
Well, my wife would say yes, 

Karen Pizza 17:32
Your male. 

Rich Bennett 17:33
so 

Karen Pizza 17:33
It's like some of these. I don't know This is sick. 

Rich Bennett 17:36
Well, wait a minute. What the hell do you mean by that because I'm a guy? 

Karen Pizza 17:40
You guys you know, there's there's a reason they call it the man flu, 

Rich Bennett 17:44
But 

Karen Pizza 17:44
okay? 

Rich Bennett 17:44
no, no, 

Karen Pizza 17:46
no, no 

Rich Bennett 17:46
no, 

Karen Pizza 17:46
Ask 

Rich Bennett 17:46
no, no, 

Karen Pizza 17:47
any of your listeners. I'll just don't tell 

Rich Bennett 17:48
you okay. First of all, it's you won't no Are you gonna mind go ahead? I'm not gonna win this argument 

Karen Pizza 17:55
No, Have you have your listeners call in and say 

Rich Bennett 17:59
yeah, 

Karen Pizza 18:00
the man flu is a real thing, so 

As good say we're gonna talk about you But we're talking about noises bothering us as they cut the grass 

Rich Bennett 18:13
Yeah, definitely. 

Karen Pizza 18:14
Yeah, so some of these things Like I said, this is just a Google list. I agree with some some I don't do you tend to socially isolate No 

Meaning not like I mean for this you're doing because you are a very social person, 

Rich Bennett 18:32
right? 

Karen Pizza 18:32
But then you need your downtime to be quiet or be like no outside stimulation. 

Rich Bennett 18:37
Oh, I do need that. I think everybody needs that Really 

Karen Pizza 18:40
surprisingly some don't yeah 

Rich Bennett 18:42
Wow, okay, 

Karen Pizza 18:43
do I absorb other people's stress emotions 

Rich Bennett 18:47
or symptoms, I'm gonna say 

Karen Pizza 18:48
Mm-Hmm, 

Rich Bennett 18:48
yes 

Karen Pizza 18:50
am I overwhelmed by multitasking and prefer doing one thing at a 

Rich Bennett 18:53
time? No, okay Do 

Karen Pizza 18:56
I do I replenish myself in nature? 

Rich Bennett 19:00
Yes, I think everybody we met what? 

Karen Pizza 19:05
You get calm you get reground it you get you 

Rich Bennett 19:08
it 

Karen Pizza 19:08
feel 

Rich Bennett 19:08
Everybody should do that oh 

Karen Pizza 19:09
Not everyone needs to be a nature to do it some people can do it in their house some people will just take a bath 

Rich Bennett 19:14
Oh, well, I 

Karen Pizza 19:16
some of us just like being When I go outside and walk in the woods where there's no 

Rich Bennett 19:21
one Meditation 

Karen Pizza 19:22
where there's no one cutting the 

Rich Bennett 19:23
yeah 

Karen Pizza 19:23
grass. It's it's it's like getting a hug from nature. 

Rich Bennett 19:27
Yes, 

Karen Pizza 19:27
It's like it's it's it's Reviving me. 

Rich Bennett 19:30
Yeah, 

Karen Pizza 19:31
I'm refilling my 

Rich Bennett 19:32
cup. 

Karen Pizza 19:32
okay 

Rich Bennett 19:33
Okay, 

Karen Pizza 19:35
Do I this you're gonna ask me about this one do I need a long time to recuperate after being with difficult people or energy vampires? 

Rich Bennett 19:43
Hey, well, I And energy vampire. 

Karen Pizza 19:48
So what an energy vampire is. And we all have one and do not say the name of whoever it is when it pops up into your head. Cause I'm sure you have at least one around you. 

Rich Bennett 19:57
Okay. 

Karen Pizza 19:58
Basically an energy vampire is someone who sucks the life out of you. Like, you'll be with this person. It could be a family member. It could be a friend. It could be a coworker. It doesn't matter. But whenever you're around them, they exhaust They're either complaining all the time, or they're dumping on you. 

Rich Bennett 20:18
you. Yes. 

Karen Pizza 20:19
Yeah. No names. Um, and, uh, 

Rich Bennett 20:23
so 

Karen Pizza 20:24
what happens are energy vampires, just basically they dump all their negative energy on 

Rich Bennett 20:30
them, 

Karen Pizza 20:30
and they take your good energy. So they suck the life out of you. Basically. 

Rich Bennett 20:34
Okay. God man, there's a lot of people. 

Karen Pizza 20:37
That man. Here's the other thing that's kind of going off of where I was. Narcissus. 

Rich Bennett 20:43
Oh. 

Karen Pizza 20:45
Narcissus love empaths who don't know how to block. Simply because they can play you like a puppet. 

Rich Bennett 20:54
Right. 

Karen Pizza 20:54
what's happening as an empath, you have your own feelings. 

Rich Bennett 20:58
Right. Because 

Karen Pizza 20:59
And you the sky is blue. Okay. A narcissist is always right. They're never wrong. Their opinion is their opinion. And everyone else should have the same one. And they'll tell you the sky is 

Rich Bennett 21:14
white convince 

Karen Pizza 21:15
you white. 

Rich Bennett 21:15
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 21:16
And so as an empath, what's going on is you know it's blue. You're 

Rich Bennett 21:20
Mm-hmm. 

Karen Pizza 21:20
looking at that sky. It is blue. But the narcissist is saying it's white. So as an empath, you're picking up their feelings because that's what you naturally do. 

Rich Bennett 21:29
Mm-hmm. 

Karen Pizza 21:29
So you're picking up their feelings of saying that it's white. So then you start doubting yourself. Like, oh, maybe it's a baby blue or maybe it's so a narcissist can play you just like a string puppet. They can just make you think and do exactly how they want. I had a friend of my well, I former friend, in my life prior to me knowing I was an empath. And I put up with more crap from this person to the point that everyone's like, why are you friends with them? 

Rich Bennett 21:59
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 21:59
Because I kept going back to being friends. You know, I'd say, you know, basically, goodbye. And but it would come back around again. And I didn't realize it was because I was an empath. Once I realize I was an empath because a narcissist. 

Excuse this little break here for them to do the weed racking. Um, this is what we want to do. 

Rich Bennett 22:23
bad thing about when 

Karen Pizza 22:25
I'm 

Rich Bennett 22:26
seasons change. And I swear, I think they wait for me to come up here and die. Did they come up the last time we record you? Maybe not. 

Karen Pizza 22:34
I don't remember. I can't remember 

Rich Bennett 22:36
back. 

Karen Pizza 22:36
that far 

Rich Bennett 22:36
I'm just so used 

Karen Pizza 22:38
What was a few years ago, 

Rich Bennett 22:40
to. 

Karen Pizza 22:41
but the anyway, back to the narcissist, they, um, they let to control people. 

Rich Bennett 22:49
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 22:49
And as an empath who doesn't know how to block, they're always making you feel like it's your fault. Everything, everything wrong is you did it. They're the ultimate gaslighting. And because they, I guarantee you every single empath who does not know how to block has at least one narcissist in their life. 

Rich Bennett 23:10
Oh, so with an empath before they learn how to block, I guess because they aren't an empath, it can't be controlled. Does it seem like they tend to align themselves with more negative stuff? Okay. 

Karen Pizza 23:27
People, you feel, you feel more comfortable, I should say, in like smaller cities or the country than in larger cities. 

Rich Bennett 23:34
Jesus. 

Karen Pizza 23:36
You prefer one-on-one interactions or small groups. 

Rich Bennett 23:39
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 23:40
Rather than large gatherings. 

Rich Bennett 23:41
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 23:42
Yeah. So the results that according to this, 

Rich Bennett 23:48
I'm an empath. 

Karen Pizza 23:49
If you answered yes to one to five questions, you're partially one. Yes, to six to 10, your moderate empath, uh, responding yes to 11 to 15 means you have strong empathetic tendencies. Answer yes to more than 15 means that you're a full blown empath. 

Rich Bennett 24:06
I lost count. 

Karen Pizza 24:08
So do I. You're definitely up there. I don't necessarily agree with the, the pain threshold and strong reacting to caffeine or medications and that kind of stuff. 

Rich Bennett 24:18
Some people have no reaction to it. It's still a caffeine 

Karen Pizza 24:21
doesn't bother me. 

Rich Bennett 24:22
Pay it now with me with pain, I mean, I got to be on the brink of tears that even pop them on motoring. I don't, I just don't like to take medicine. Now, I used to before back in the day, especially when I was DJing in the clubs or let me rephrase that. After I messed up my back. 

Karen Pizza 24:40
Okay. 

Rich Bennett 24:41
And when I was DJ carrying that equipment, yeah, I would just start popping motoring. and even going to the doctors, I would have no problem asking for a painkiller. But nowadays, and I guess, especially after, you know, when you, when you learn more about addiction and you see how how painkillers have led to other things. 

Karen Pizza 25:06
Welcome to my world. 

Rich Bennett 25:07
Yeah, I mean, that's one of the reasons I do. I've had two friends. 

That'd 

Karen Pizza 25:14
be three fingers. 

Rich Bennett 25:15
Two people I know that have died because of taking like aspirin. It ate their stomach away. And it's like, I was for the longest time, I was taking an 80 milligram baby aspirin every day. That was prescribed for my doctor. I was only prescription. I 

Karen Pizza 25:33
taking 

Rich Bennett 25:33
was because of 

Karen Pizza 25:35
of 

Rich Bennett 25:36
blood pressure, I guess blood pressure or 

Karen Pizza 25:38
Heart, 

Rich Bennett 25:38
heart or whatever. 

Karen Pizza 25:38
heart or sugar? 

Rich Bennett 25:39
Yeah. And then and that my new doctor said, you used to want us? I gave him, he said, you don't need any more. I haven't been doing it for years and my blood pressure's been excellent. 

Karen Pizza 25:51
Imagine that. Yeah, I was the goodness. How long has it been now? Twenty one years ago, I was addicted to painkillers. 

Rich Bennett 26:03
It's scary. 

Karen Pizza 26:05
And they were doctor prescribed because I was in a car accident. 

Rich Bennett 26:09
Oh, 

Karen Pizza 26:10
And I was what, twenty five, I guess. And they couldn't fix my neck. I'd hurt my neck. 

Rich Bennett 26:16
right. 

Karen Pizza 26:16
And it was a, quote, soft tissue damage, meaning they couldn't figure out where the pain was coming from. And back then, they didn't realize how addictive they were. I was like, they were prescribing on my candy. 

Rich Bennett 26:26
They're probably opioid based too, weren't they? 

Karen Pizza 26:28
Yeah, it was plugasets. 

Rich Bennett 26:29
Oh, shit. 

Karen Pizza 26:30
Yeah, so and it literally and Wendy can explain all this better than I could that, it only takes what four days for your body to get addicted to those things. 

Rich Bennett 26:40
That's it. 

Karen Pizza 26:41
When you take pain meds, like anything like a percussette, oxycodone, that kind of stuff, it only takes the body like, I think it's the body, body in the mind, don't quote me exactly, but it's like four to five days for your body to get addicted to it. So what that means is when you stop taking it, you're going to get the shakes, you're going to get the boobs, you're 

Rich Bennett 27:00
to 

Karen Pizza 27:00
going 

Rich Bennett 27:00
the 

Karen Pizza 27:01
flu-like symptoms. So now they're much more aware, 20 years ago, 25 years ago they weren't, 

because that's a whole another, I'm going to stop right there because that's a whole another podcast. 

Rich Bennett 27:16
You 

Karen Pizza 27:16
get, you'll get me on my soapbox on that one. But anyway, back to being an empath. 

Rich Bennett 27:21
So apparently I'm one somehow or another, but maybe not full-blown. 

Karen Pizza 27:26
There's degrees. 

Rich Bennett 27:28
Okay. 

Karen Pizza 27:28
And there's also different kinds. There's people who 

and that's another whole Google for the type of people who are 

Rich Bennett 27:37
search 

Karen Pizza 27:37
empaths, the type of empaths, like some of them work with animals. And empaths a lot of times are very sensitive to animals, meaning they can pick up out animals feel. They feel drawn animals are drawn to you, dogs, cats, whatever. The turtle we just saw out front, they're drawn to you. 

Rich Bennett 27:59
Oh, I'm not a chick magnet. I'm an animal magnet. It's just something that the animals are just said. I mean dogs. I mean, cats. Well, cats not so much. 

Karen Pizza 28:10
Well, yeah, cats are just the room. They're a whole another there are aliens. 

Rich Bennett 28:14
I can see that because I mean, you know, I've had, I've had the squirrels come up to me, I've had a ring. So Caroline 

Karen Pizza 28:22
Caroline 

Rich Bennett 28:22
a ring come up need out of my hand. What was the other thing I've thought about it for 

Karen Pizza 28:29
the birds. 

Rich Bennett 28:31
What that's what Caroline right now is humming bird moth. 

Karen Pizza 28:35
Really? 

Rich Bennett 28:36
Actually, I had a humming bird moth allowed me to pet it in my backyard. 

Karen Pizza 28:43
Wow. 

Rich Bennett 28:45
Okay. 

Karen Pizza 28:46
A lot of times kids are drawn to you little kids. 

Rich Bennett 28:49
Well, that's because 

Karen Pizza 28:49
there's a reason you play, 

Rich Bennett 28:50
And ah, 

Karen Pizza 28:51
but he wants 

Rich Bennett 28:51
no, yeah, that is 

Karen Pizza 28:53
to. 

Rich Bennett 28:53
true. But I think I got that a lot from Boone because Terry the kids love. 

Karen Pizza 28:57
Well, it's um, right, Terry. 

Rich Bennett 29:00
Oh, okay. Okay. The kids like Sean, I mean, he's got to cover up his mug with that Easter bunny thing. 

Karen Pizza 29:12
It has been pushed on, it's been so long. So I've seen Sean. I don't even know. 

Rich Bennett 29:18
I mean, I know there's books about this, but have you ever considered writing a book? 

Karen Pizza 29:24
My sister in law tells me all the time that I should write a book about my life. 

Rich Bennett 29:28
Well, yeah, 

Karen Pizza 29:29
because everything I've been through, it's like, I just, I just like doing what I do. I love people will come in to see me typically the reasons are They're anxious 

Rich Bennett 29:43
right. 

Karen Pizza 29:44
and stressed. 

well, I was gonna 

Rich Bennett 29:56
say you keep pretty busy too, no? Oh, 

Karen Pizza 29:56
English. Um, it's been... it's been... Marketing. You didn't say English. 

Rich Bennett 29:56
yeah, and it's gotten more and more busy, but it's been... well, that was good 

Yeah, 

Karen Pizza 30:15
but I it's a lot of referrals. 

Rich Bennett 30:17
Right. 

Karen Pizza 30:17
And a large number, probably if I had to think about it, 75% of the people I see, I'm seeing them for trauma reasons. It's trauma-based. 

Rich Bennett 30:30
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Karen Pizza 32:12
you-- 

Rich Bennett 32:12
home. 

Karen Pizza 32:13
Correct. 

Rich Bennett 32:13
Do you have your own brick and mortar now? Are you 

Karen Pizza 32:14
it from home? 

Rich Bennett 32:15
still 

Karen Pizza 32:15
Well, 

Rich Bennett 32:15
doing 

Karen Pizza 32:16
right now, I have the studio at my home. 

Rich Bennett 32:18
Okay. 

Karen Pizza 32:19
Because it's a private room. And the main reason I still have it there-- 

Rich Bennett 32:23
because it makes sense. 

Karen Pizza 32:25
Well, besides that are my dogs. My dogs are my little associates. They literally-- the one dog will come in, and they greet you when you come in. The one dog will literally lay under the table wherever the more shocked it is. Like he knows. And then the other dog will lay there. And if you get upset, even quietly-- like you're not making a noise-- he comes over, jumps up on the table and starts kissing. 

Rich Bennett 32:48
Get 

Karen Pizza 32:49
It's crazy. If you look at my reviews, some of the people mention 'em. 

Rich Bennett 32:53
out. 

Karen Pizza 32:54
I keep trying to get my accountant to let me write them off as employees, but 

Rich Bennett 32:58
he won't let me. He 

Karen Pizza 33:01
keeps telling me I don't look good in orange and I don't look good in stripes, so he won't let me write them off. And I send him pictures of them literally laying under the table. It's crazy, so but I am actually working and it may be done before this podcast comes out, opening a holistic wellness center. 

Rich Bennett 33:20
Really? 

Karen Pizza 33:21
I've been talking about it for five years and spaces become available because I teach classes now. 

Rich Bennett 33:27
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 33:27
I may have been doing it back then, but now-- 

Rich Bennett 33:29
Yeah, I think you're teaching classes. 

Karen Pizza 33:30
But now what I do is a whole crystal raky master certification program. 

Rich Bennett 33:36
Okay. 

Karen Pizza 33:37
It's like 60 hours. It's hands-on when the people are done taking my class, they're ready to start working immediately. They're ready to just open up their own 

Rich Bennett 33:49
How 

Karen Pizza 33:49
place. 

Rich Bennett 33:50
many square feet do you need for this? 

Karen Pizza 33:52
Well, the reason I don't need a lot per 

Rich Bennett 33:55
se, 

Karen Pizza 33:56
but several of my students who have graduated don't want to work out of the houses. So they're looking for a space 

Rich Bennett 34:03
so they would. 

Karen Pizza 34:04
So they would work under me. I have several people who do yoga, who want a place to work out of. 

Rich Bennett 34:09
Okay, 

Karen Pizza 34:10
so my goal is-- and I'm looking at one place now, the owner of the building is out of town. I just see because I know exactly what I 

Rich Bennett 34:18
want. 

Karen Pizza 34:19
So it's just matter finding it. And I want to make it, I don't want to use the term holistic well in the center because that's like the big buzz word. 

Rich Bennett 34:27
Yeah, 

Karen Pizza 34:27
Now days it seems. And not to turn away any male clients. A lot of my clients are females. Right. And it's all about the self empowerment. You're getting your personal power back. A lot of the clients I see are between the ages of say 40 and 60. 

Rich Bennett 34:44
right. Okay, 

Karen Pizza 34:44
And what's going on is their kids are not growing up. They don't have a quote purpose anymore. You know as a mom even though we're always mom and that's exactly the transformation I went through 

Rich Bennett 34:55
right. 

Karen Pizza 34:55
eight years ago when I started this. My 

Rich Bennett 34:57
Right. 

Karen Pizza 34:57
daughter went away to college. My youngest. And it's like, okay, now what I do with myself. 

Rich Bennett 35:01
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 35:02
And so I want to make the facility. 

Rich Bennett 35:07
Mm 

Karen Pizza 35:08
hmm. All about helping women holistically. 

Rich Bennett 35:13
I love 

Karen Pizza 35:14
that whether heal themselves physically, mentally, 

Rich Bennett 35:19
emotionally, 

Karen Pizza 35:20
whatever. 

Rich Bennett 35:22
That would be awesome. 

Karen Pizza 35:23
So it would be different people there. It'll be. 

Rich Bennett 35:24
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 35:25
Yoga. It'll be acupuncture, massage. Ricky. 

Rich Bennett 35:28
When it comes to, to holistic wellness, there's so many different things that you can do you. I mean, the ones you just mentioned and we talked about this on the podcast a lot. The, the plan approach. um, tease. All these different things that can help people. 

Karen Pizza 35:53
How much do you want me to say? You know, that's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. You're doing this thing. That's amazing. 

Rich Bennett 35:55
Oh, yeah, it is. We've done. I had a young lady on it and she mentioned it for, I'm like, what, no, we're just tapping. 

Karen Pizza 36:02
You start doing it and you'll see. 

Rich Bennett 36:03
Yeah, I did. 

Karen Pizza 36:04
sound healing. 

Rich Bennett 36:06
Easy 

Karen Pizza 36:06
I'm actually a certified sound healer. 

Rich Bennett 36:08
Really? So like the Tibetan bowls and all that. Oh, I love them. 

Karen Pizza 36:11
I use those in my practice. 

Rich Bennett 36:13
I just, I, it's of course, I would go to sleep with them, but my wife doesn't like that. So now I'll ask, like, see to play white noise, which is something you think about growing up. That's something we used to fall asleep to all the 

Karen Pizza 36:30
There's 

Rich Bennett 36:30
time. 

Karen Pizza 36:30
always a fan. We didn't have air conditioning. We had fans. 

Rich Bennett 36:32
One of the white noise was remember because you didn't have 24/7 TV. 

Karen Pizza 36:37
Right. 

Rich Bennett 36:38
And the screen you had to have the snow, you just. 

Karen Pizza 36:39
That's right. 

Rich Bennett 36:41
That's what the white noise is. There's 

Karen Pizza 36:45
a really cool app. It's called Insight Timer. It's free. You can pay for some of it, but the majority of the stuff on there's free. There's like 40,000, 50,000 at least meditations on there. And you can do guide it. You can do just sound. It can do ocean. And what's really nice about it is you set the timer for how long you want it to be. 

Rich Bennett 37:05
Right. 

Karen Pizza 37:05
It your screen on your phone turns off while it's playing and it turns itself off when it's done. I use it every night. 

Rich Bennett 37:12
Oh, so now I'll 

Karen Pizza 37:14
See, 

Rich Bennett 37:14
put 

Karen Pizza 37:14
you could do that. And it wouldn't bother you wife because like Mark, my husband, when I do the guide at once you'll 

Rich Bennett 37:19
yeah, 

Karen Pizza 37:20
say, oh, I don't like them. I can't sleep when they're talking. Now, of course, 30 seconds later, he's sound asleep 

Rich Bennett 37:25
Santa. 

Karen Pizza 37:25
snoring, but he tried to say that that's a problem. 

Rich Bennett 37:29
The one I can't do enough tried is anything with water because I mean, 

Karen Pizza 37:35
you pay yourself. 

Rich Bennett 37:37
Well, you never you never want to visit a restroom while you're sleeping, never visit a restroom in your dreams because you will pay. But nice. It's that sound of running water. Maybe for women, but with guys you hear run of water. You're gonna pay 

Karen Pizza 37:52
right. there's like babbling Brooks. There's thunderstorms. That's where my thunderstorms aren't. It's what it's called inside timer. Check it out. 

Rich Bennett 38:02
But 

Karen Pizza 38:02
And I do not get paid for for mentioning it for 

Rich Bennett 38:05
Yeah, not a sponsor or this episode. 

Karen Pizza 38:08
exactly. 

Rich Bennett 38:08
Like so what else do we do? We have about empath. 

Karen Pizza 38:10
So 

Rich Bennett 38:11
empathologist. 

Karen Pizza 38:12
So. 

And empathologist would be someone who studies 

Rich Bennett 38:18
empaths. Well, didn't you study. Don't you study empaths? No, 

Karen Pizza 38:21
I help them. 

Rich Bennett 38:22
Oh, you gotta study them to help them. Right? 

Karen Pizza 38:26
Technically. 

Rich Bennett 38:27
Technically. All right. So you're an 

Karen Pizza 38:27
But I'm. 

Rich Bennett 38:28
empath. 

Karen Pizza 38:28
But I'm. I'm. helping 

Rich Bennett 38:31
I'm 

Karen Pizza 38:31
my clients who happens to be empaths and not all of my clients are empaths. 

Rich Bennett 38:35
You are an empath master. 

Karen Pizza 38:39
No. 

Rich Bennett 38:39
No. No. Okay. You say 

Karen Pizza 38:41
that I help people who are 

Rich Bennett 38:43
Yeah, 

Karen Pizza 38:43
empaths. 

Rich Bennett 38:43
you have love gurus or empath guru. 

Karen Pizza 38:47
Okay. I'll go with that one. 

Rich Bennett 38:49
Or was that a movie love guru? It may have been a movie. 

Karen Pizza 38:52
Again, before my time. 

Rich Bennett 38:54
It was not before your time. 

Karen Pizza 38:57
I couldn't help. But there was too easy. There was just too easy. Anyway. Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 39:01
I'm 

Karen Pizza 39:02
So. 

Rich Bennett 39:02
going to have to change the name of this podcast from conversations to rich, rich, beds to. Hey, let's go pick on rich again. 

Karen Pizza 39:08
said that last time I was here. Uhm, but you 

Rich Bennett 39:12
You 

Karen Pizza 39:12
invited me back, 

Rich Bennett 39:13
Well because 

Karen Pizza 39:14
you invited 

Rich Bennett 39:14
if you 

Karen Pizza 39:14
me 

Rich Bennett 39:14
didn't give me a hard time then I would know you don't want 

Karen Pizza 39:16
back. Uhm, 

Rich Bennett 39:16
me. Exactly. 

Karen Pizza 39:16
exactly. I mean we're not going on, coming back. The decades that we have known. 

Rich Bennett 39:21
Oh stop. 

Karen Pizza 39:22
I just said decades I didn't see how many. 

Rich Bennett 39:24
It's only one. 

Karen Pizza 39:27
That be a millennium. Anyway, so someone comes in. We figure out there an impact. Clear out their aura. Again, the bubble that we all have around ourselves. We clear that out with various modalities, you know, sound, a crystal, a sage, whatever might be needed, uh, clear that all out. Once we get it all cleared out I then teach them how to block. All to basically form a bubble around themselves. Uhm, uhm, to keep other people's energy off of them. One of the really cool things to do is, uh, if you imagine a disco ball. 

Rich Bennett 40:08
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 40:09
If you think about a disco ball it's nothing but mirrors. Right. 

Rich Bennett 40:11
Right. 

Karen Pizza 40:11
Okay. So what you do is when you get up in the morning, you stand up and you imagine that you're stepping into a disco ball. And you have of the ball coming up around you like like a shell kind of thing. So what happens is when anybody's energy hits you, it bounces off the mirrors, so you're not taking it on. That's, this is like the easiest way to teach someone how to block. Uhm, now the nice part about it is when you're dealing with that narcissist that we all have in our lives. When their energy hits that mirror, it bounces off and hits them. 

Rich Bennett 40:49
Oh. 

Karen Pizza 40:50
So what happens, and I've seen it for myself personally, I've seen it with clients, that narcissist all of a sudden doesn't feel right when they don't treat you 

Rich Bennett 40:59
Because 

Karen Pizza 41:00
right. 

Rich Bennett 41:00
they're hitting them with themselves. 

Karen Pizza 41:02
Exactly. And so all of a sudden the whole attitude changes how they act towards you. And you just sit back inside your little disco ball and say, come on, bring it. 

Rich Bennett 41:10
How long does it learn how to, does it take to learn how to do that? 

Karen Pizza 41:13
I just 

Rich Bennett 41:14
taught you. Huh, 

Karen Pizza 41:15
just taught you how to do it. That's how long it takes. Now to put it into practice takes a little bit longer, 

Rich Bennett 41:20
I 

Karen Pizza 41:21
you know, because you've 

Rich Bennett 41:22
told me how to do 

Karen Pizza 41:22
Well, 

Rich Bennett 41:23
it. 

Karen Pizza 41:23
you spent, you know, basically this is what you do and you get in the habit of doing it every day, and if you forget morning or whatever when you go have to be in a crowd or you have to be around someone who's not the most pleasant person. Put a full-length mirror up in front of yourself and then you just get used to doing that. And then that'll keep all anything new energy off of you. 

Rich Bennett 41:46
Right. 

Karen Pizza 41:46
Now if someone's coming to see me, when they come into see me, we completely clear them out. So for the first time in their life, they know what it feels like not to have anyone else's energy on them. 

Rich Bennett 41:58
Huh. 

Karen Pizza 41:59
And it's literally, it feels like they lost 10 pounds. scale 

Rich Bennett 42:02
The 

Karen Pizza 42:02
doesn't change it, but it feels they feel so much lighter. It's crazy how it works. 

Rich Bennett 42:06
They'll probably help them lose weight if they need to. 

Karen Pizza 42:09
I don't know about that. 

Rich Bennett 42:10
a, 

Karen Pizza 42:10
Do you feel like 

Rich Bennett 42:10
well, you feel better, 

Karen Pizza 42:11
yeah? Yeah, you literally, a lot of people were empaths and a lot of people who are listening to this will be able to relate. It feels like you know that cartoon with the ball and chain on the ankle like that cannonball 

Rich Bennett 42:23
ball. 

Karen Pizza 42:25
A lot of people are empaths feel like they're constantly carrying that around. They are always heavy because they feel like they're always carrying that extra weight. And they are. But it's energetic weight. It's there. It's other people's energy. 

Rich Bennett 42:37
Huh. 

Karen Pizza 42:37
So we clear it out. So you just go and you're just give-all and you just put the mirror up. And you give yourself a break because you know you spent, you know, all 39 years of your life not blocking. And. 

Rich Bennett 42:51
I love 

Karen Pizza 42:53
Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 42:53
you. Hey, you're just. yeah, I'd say. 

Karen Pizza 42:58
it's easy to be a BS or 

Rich Bennett 42:59
Sometimes 

Karen Pizza 42:59
but anyway, but anyway you've spent your whole life not blocking people. 

Rich Bennett 43:04
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 43:05
So now that you know you have to give yourself a break and you just slowly remind yourself. 

Rich Bennett 43:11
Huh. 

Karen Pizza 43:12
And the first time you do it, you're going to be calling me saying, oh my god, I care and that worked. 

Rich Bennett 43:17
Alright, question for Especially 

Karen Pizza 43:20
you. 

Rich Bennett 43:20
says you, you know, you mainly work with women. Do you know of any guys out there to do this, 

Karen Pizza 43:26
you know, 

Rich Bennett 43:26
do 

Karen Pizza 43:26
that are impass? 

Rich Bennett 43:27
Well, no, no, no, no, that do what you do. Yeah, whether it be the crustal raky or helping. 

Karen Pizza 43:32
Yeah, there's a few. There's some Ricky masters that are meant 

Rich Bennett 43:34
around here. 

Karen Pizza 43:37
There was there was one person. I don't know his work. I have 

Rich Bennett 43:40
All 

Karen Pizza 43:40
never 

Rich Bennett 43:41
right. 

Karen Pizza 43:41
worked with him personally, but I know there was one at the mall. 

Rich Bennett 43:43
I'll just put on a wig and come see you. 

Karen Pizza 43:46
I see guys. 

Rich Bennett 43:47
Oh, 

Karen Pizza 43:48
don't 

Rich Bennett 43:48
okay, 

Karen Pizza 43:48
only see women. I see lots of you know, you know, who the biggest 

Rich Bennett 43:51
I 

Karen Pizza 43:51
advocate for me is. Mark, my husband. 

Rich Bennett 43:54
Oh, 

Karen Pizza 43:55
no, but here's why he used to be very type A, very stressed out. I literally used to call him a heart attack on a stick because he was so stressed all the time. 

Rich Bennett 44:07
Wow. 

Karen Pizza 44:08
Uh, I started doing rakey eight years ago. He's god-level and he's always been very supportive of everything I've ever done is like, 'you know, you go for it, you have fun' kind of thing.' 

And then he'll actually say to me, 'hey, I need a session' because he's 

Rich Bennett 44:41
I 

Karen Pizza 44:41
f***ing 

Rich Bennett 44:41
was gonna say, 'okay, with 

Karen Pizza 44:43
with that. 

Rich Bennett 44:44
that.' I know an age like a chiropractor or therapist where he's straight as you go once a week, but how often does a client come back and see you 

Karen Pizza 44:52
Well, that's 

Rich Bennett 44:53
normally? 

Karen Pizza 44:54
the interesting thing. Some people, if you're going to do a basic chakra balancing, which is where we go in, we clear your aura, we realign all, 'cause your chakras are basically your energy centers'. 

Rich Bennett 45:06
Right. If 

Karen Pizza 45:07
you think of them as spinning discs, the idea is for them to spin in the same direction, same speed, same time. With the chakra balancing, we go in, we just realign everything and send 

Rich Bennett 45:16
your energy away. 

Karen Pizza 45:17
That's great, but it doesn't really hold. Something like that, you probably will come back. I don't even know every month, two months. Some people... 

Rich Bennett 45:26
Okay, it's 

Karen Pizza 45:27
Well, 

Rich Bennett 45:27
definitely f***ing 

Karen Pizza 45:28
some breaky 

Rich Bennett 45:29
push. 

Karen Pizza 45:29
practitioners will have programs where you buy five, get one free or any of that kind of stuff. That's not how I work my practice for me, and this is just for me because I'm an intuitive counselor, and my goal is when I see you, is to not have to see you again. 

Rich Bennett 45:47
Makes 

Karen Pizza 45:47
Poor 

Rich Bennett 45:47
sense. 

Karen Pizza 45:48
business model in 

Rich Bennett 45:48
goal... 

Karen Pizza 45:48
some ways, 

Rich Bennett 45:49
Well, no, not really. 

Karen Pizza 45:50
but my 

Rich Bennett 45:50
That's because that's gonna get you more 

Karen Pizza 45:52
Well, 

Rich Bennett 45:52
reversed. 

Karen Pizza 45:52
what happens is, you come in, we clear out whatever is going on, 

Rich Bennett 45:57
you 

Karen Pizza 45:57
never 

Rich Bennett 45:57
can 

Karen Pizza 45:58
quote trauma you may have. I mean, being born is a trauma. 

Rich Bennett 46:01
Right. Think 

Karen Pizza 46:02
of it that way. You come in, we work on clearing the trauma, depending on how bad it is. Sometimes it's two, three. I think the most I've ever done was like four sessions on 

Rich Bennett 46:13
one. 

Karen Pizza 46:13
Because at this point, I've learned to only do as much as the body can handle. 

Rich Bennett 46:17
Right. 

Karen Pizza 46:18
sense. And 

Rich Bennett 46:18
Okay, 

Karen Pizza 46:18
you 

Rich Bennett 46:18
make 

Karen Pizza 46:19
can't always take it all out at once. 

Rich Bennett 46:20
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 46:21
Basically, when you're completely cleared out, get you to a level that you're functioning on a high vibration. Your calm, your settled for the most part, and then I send you on your way. 

Rich Bennett 46:33
Okay. 

Karen Pizza 46:34
Most people come back usually ten months to a year for like an oil change. Just a tune up kind of thing. That's the best way to describe it. Now, I have some clients who are therapists that I've been working with. I have several therapists I've worked with who have said that one regular session is like three years of therapy. 

Rich Bennett 46:56
Really? 

Karen Pizza 46:57
And their words, not mine, simply because of the fact that I can see what's going on. I've been blessed with the ability that I can see what is wrong with 

Rich Bennett 47:05
Yeah. 

Karen Pizza 47:05
you. I mean, you're holding the podcast, but for other people, excuse 

Rich Bennett 47:11
excuse 

Karen Pizza 47:11
me, 

Rich Bennett 47:11
me. Wow. 

Karen Pizza 47:12
Sorry, I couldn't resist that one. We can see what's going on. So for say like one of my clients is a grief therapist. So she came in, we cleared her own stuff out and got rid of it, but because she's dealing with people who are handling grief on a regular basis, she needs to come back a little more often just to get a basic clearing. 

Rich Bennett 47:34
Right. Because 

Karen Pizza 47:34
she's taking on that energy, just like, you know, psychiatrists have to be seen by other psychiatrists. 

Rich Bennett 47:40
Yeah. And 

Karen Pizza 47:41
psychologists have to be other psychologists. It's the same idea. I have to have rakeed on me. 

Rich Bennett 47:47
Now, 

Karen Pizza 47:47
luckily I teach rakee to my students so that I have someone now. 

Rich Bennett 47:51
have 

Karen Pizza 47:51
I always 

Rich Bennett 47:52
to practice 

Karen Pizza 47:52
it 

Rich Bennett 47:52
on you. 

Karen Pizza 47:53
practice on 

Rich Bennett 47:53
It 

Karen Pizza 47:53
me, 

Rich Bennett 47:54
makes 

Karen Pizza 47:54
yeah, so 

Rich Bennett 47:55
right, so we're number one. If people want to not use you, 

Karen Pizza 48:02
all 

Rich Bennett 48:03
if people need to come to you for a session, how do they get in contact with you? 

Karen Pizza 48:06
I have the crystal rakey with Karen Facebook page. I also have Instagram. I have my website is www dot crystal rakey with Karen dot com. 

Rich Bennett 48:20
Just want to make sure you had it, 

Karen Pizza 48:21
right? I have it right. I didn't 

Rich Bennett 48:23
do business prior to make sure 

Karen Pizza 48:24
I 

Rich Bennett 48:24
she. 

Karen Pizza 48:24
have it right. There's, if you can go, if you Google crystal rakey with Karen. It'll take you my web page, but also you can see my Google reviews 

Rich Bennett 48:35
Right. 

Karen Pizza 48:36
of what people say, the scheduling program that I use. It's a Vagaro is the program that schedules it. There are reviews on there, and I have it set up. The only people who can leave reviews, there are people who have actually seen me, 

Rich Bennett 48:49
That's 

Karen Pizza 48:49
so. 

Rich Bennett 48:49
good. 

Karen Pizza 48:49
So it's not a matter of, you know, me 

Rich Bennett 48:51
fake 

Karen Pizza 48:52
Fake 

Rich Bennett 48:52
review, 

Karen Pizza 48:52
reviews, 

Rich Bennett 48:53
right? 

Karen Pizza 48:53
you know, paying somebody five dollars to give me a review. 

Rich Bennett 48:55
Or even something that you pissed somebody off that never even saw you and giving you a bad review. 

Karen Pizza 49:00
That's true too. I never thought of it that way. Um, and then there's reviews on Facebook. Oh, the other thing I do, which it's free. So I must love that out. Is every month I do a free full moon guided meditation on my Facebook page. So you literally, it's there'll be an event set up with this month or next month, rather it's either June 10th or 11th. I don't know when this is going to air. But 

Rich Bennett 49:24
so live video. 

Karen Pizza 49:25
Yeah. What happens is you would at 9 p. m. It's always 9 p. at night. You go to my crystal rakey with Karen Facebook page. Lay down, get ready for bed. So a lot of people fall asleep during it. 

Rich Bennett 49:37
Really? 

Karen Pizza 49:38
Yeah. And you literally just go to the page. I go live. You put the phone down next to you, you don't have to look at it. And I do a whole guided meditation. And then after the meditation's done, I send rakey energy out to whoever happens beyond. So you get a free mini rakey session. 

Rich Bennett 49:55
Now, is that recording? Do you do you record it and save it? 

Karen Pizza 50:00
Sometimes 

Rich Bennett 50:00
because you said it's on Facebook live. 

Karen Pizza 50:01
Yeah. So I can't record and save it and have it replay for a month. Usually I have a replay for a month. So people can go back. Now you're not going to get the rakey energy, obviously, because it's that part of it live anymore. But the guided meditation. And I usually try to match it up to the full moon, where it is astrologically, don't know a whole lot about quite honestly, um, I has my daughter. And, uh, so it's a it's a nice way just to chill relaxed with it's the full moon is all about releasing and letting go. So I guide you through a whole meditation. 

Rich Bennett 50:35
How often is a full moon? Is it once a month? 

Karen Pizza 50:38
Once a month. 

Rich Bennett 50:39
Okay. 

Karen Pizza 50:41
And 

Rich Bennett 50:41
Huh. 

Karen Pizza 50:42
here's an interesting fact is the full moon is only full for about one minute. 

Rich Bennett 50:47
Oh, wait a minute. Then how's that work? 

Karen Pizza 50:50
It looks full. Now we get the energy from the full moon though. 

Rich Bennett 50:53
Okay. 

Karen Pizza 50:53
We get the energy three days prior to three days after, which is why we're all squirrely for about a week. 

Rich Bennett 51:01
And it's 

Karen Pizza 51:02
it's I mean, if you look at it, what the human body is 70 or 80% water. 

Rich Bennett 51:07
Right. 

Karen Pizza 51:10
The moon's energy affects the tides. 

Rich Bennett 51:14
Oh, shit. I never 

Karen Pizza 51:15
used it. So it affects our eyes. 

Rich Bennett 51:18
That makes 

Karen Pizza 51:18
sense. Mm hmm. 

Rich Bennett 51:20
Wow. 

Karen Pizza 51:21
Same thing. Like with the sound healing I do is the vibrations. 

Rich Bennett 51:24
Yeah. 

Damn, and you also do stuff remotely with. 

Karen Pizza 51:29
Oh, yeah, I do long distance. Yeah. I have the proud one of my clients actually I used to work with at Loonys way back when she now is in South Africa. 

Yeah, her husband's from there. They live there part time, part time here. But she, uh, so let's defer this. Raky, I've ever sat with the South Africa 

Rich Bennett 51:49
so far. 

Karen Pizza 51:50
So far, I don't know how much further away there is though 

Rich Bennett 51:52
in Antarctica. Can be doing it with a penguin. You do animals so you can 

Karen Pizza 51:58
Oh, and that's 

Rich Bennett 51:59
raky 

Karen Pizza 51:59
what 

Rich Bennett 51:59
with 

Karen Pizza 52:00
I do. I 

Rich Bennett 52:00
a 

Karen Pizza 52:00
do 

Rich Bennett 52:01
with a 

Karen Pizza 52:01
I do. 

Rich Bennett 52:01
penguin. 

Karen Pizza 52:01
I actually do animal raky. 

Rich Bennett 52:05
I know. 

Karen Pizza 52:06
I work with a lot animals that I can't talk to either with animals that have anxiety, stress, the, the totals rescue that I work with. 

Rich Bennett 52:15
I'll 

Karen Pizza 52:16
work with their, they, their rescues are dogs that are coming from, delicious conditions. A lot of them. And I'll do raky on them to get them chilled and calm and stress free so that they can be adoptable. 

Rich Bennett 52:29
Have you, because I know you do it with dogs, you know, but have you ever done it with horses? Okay. 

Karen Pizza 52:37
Oh, I have never done, I've never done raky on a horse before. Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 52:42
I know there's some horse rescues. 

Karen Pizza 52:43
There's actually I've been talking to. There's a horse rescue that just opened a couple months ago. Maybe I think in Japa that 

Rich Bennett 52:49
Oh, 

Karen Pizza 52:49
I've been, don't ask me the name of it because I don't remember 

Rich Bennett 52:52
right. 

Karen Pizza 52:52
that we've been talking about doing things Like having, because she lets people come in veterans, that kind of stuff. Because horses are amazing, helping, 

Rich Bennett 53:00
oh, yeah, 

Karen Pizza 53:01
PTSD, and doing something collaborating on things. I, but I've done dogs, cats, goats. I did a cocktail once. That was interesting. 

Somebody rescued a cocktail was very stressed. 

Rich Bennett 53:16
Yeah. I got on there free. I, I used to have a cocktail. Love it. Pretty bird. And I kissed it and, um, I got chorpes. It's a new kind of canaryal disease and apparently it's untweetable. 

Karen Pizza 53:32
I was trying to be so good and I just did it 

Rich Bennett 53:35
No, 

Karen Pizza 53:35
all by your. 

Rich Bennett 53:36
but here's, 

Karen Pizza 53:36
You didn't help. 

Rich Bennett 53:37
here's, here's the funny thing. I did. You I have a pet cocktail. 

Karen Pizza 53:41
to 

Rich Bennett 53:41
And I was, you want 

Karen Pizza 53:42
say that whole word? 

Rich Bennett 53:43
Cockatiel. Not a cockatoo, a cockatoo. And 

Karen Pizza 53:47
you 

Rich Bennett 53:48
I, 

Karen Pizza 53:48
just said you had to pet cock. I 

Rich Bennett 53:49
did not. I said a pet cocktail. I didn't. Stop. Anyways, and I don't, I don't, was that dirty perky? It was one of, because I used to have, just a little burgeon. And mom, I was going. I came home and mom was upset. She had the the bird and stop breathing and mom was trying to give it mouth the beaker cessation and didn't work, another time Robin used to have the little yellow chicks you get for Easter and our lab at the time thought it was one of its babies, picked it up in it's mouth, was walking around the house with, so my mom got the chick, the babies all soaking wet. Mom put it in the 

Karen Pizza 54:30
oven, jolly. Oh my god. 

Guess I didn't work. Was that dinner? 

Rich Bennett 54:37
No, I wouldn't, a chicken wing would have been bigger, so, oh yeah, oh mom, I think that's how I got my love for animals from 

Karen Pizza 54:45
Well, you know, being an empath is a part of the Terry, so it's very possible your mother 

Rich Bennett 54:48
mom. 

Karen Pizza 54:49
wasn't empath as well. my mom, I'm pretty sure my mom was, even though she wouldn't have been it 

Rich Bennett 54:56
Yeah, 

Karen Pizza 54:56
when I started doing all this work, she was, first I didn't tell her originally, and when I told her she was giving me a video, I don't need all this, you know, I just have him pointing to the sky, meeting God. She was, you raised, very devout Catholic. And I was like, mom, how do you Where do you think I got disability from? Who do you think gave me disability, and then we started talking about different things, and my sister told her the fact that I can get messages from dead people basically, and my mother looked at me and told me she's, you bet, shit crazy. I'm like, well, mom, you called me worse, and God rest her soul, probably about six months or so after she passed, she came through in one of my sessions. 

Rich Bennett 55:38
Oh, 

Karen Pizza 55:38
yeah, she was front and center, she was right there, and I knew it was her. I had no doubt it was her, and I looked up at the ceiling, when he's about shit crazy, now, mom, it's like, yeah, oh yeah, she comes through a lot, but 

Rich Bennett 55:50
So 

Karen Pizza 55:51
that's a whole another thing. 

Rich Bennett 55:52
before I get to my last questions or anything, 

Karen Pizza 55:54
you, 

Rich Bennett 55:57
because otherwise you and I could be sitting here for hours and I'll. 

Karen Pizza 55:59
This 

Rich Bennett 56:00
I'll 

Karen Pizza 56:00
is 

Rich Bennett 56:00
miss the other recording. 

Karen Pizza 56:01
This is true. And just basically that if for anyone who's listening, if you find yourself being called overly sensitive, if you find that you cannot be in large crowds that you can't watch real TV, real life TV. 

Rich Bennett 56:18
Right. 

Karen Pizza 56:19
The news, that kind of stuff, because you're affected by it so often, you feel heavy, you feel weighed down, you feel, this is especially important to me, just because I have a soft spot for it. If you have teenage, especially girls, 

Rich Bennett 56:33
Right. 

Karen Pizza 56:33
or preteen teenage girls, who seem to be suffering from anxiety a lot. 

Rich Bennett 56:37
And 

Karen Pizza 56:38
even adults, you have a lot of them, you're always anxious. You don't know why you can't settle down, you can't calm down. Look and see check, go online. Google it. Like I said, at my empath look at the different check was see what's going on. Because if you are an empath week, I can help. I'll throw it out there into the wee part. I, you can come in, we clear you out. I teach you how to block clear you out first and then block it so it doesn't continue to bother you. And I'll actually be offering a workshop, usually quarterly. I do a workshop with, with teens, I do it in person so they can meet other kids who are like them so they don't feel so alone. And then for Drought Typically, I do it on Zoom or one of those platforms. 

Rich Bennett 57:29
I think I know I got some people for. All right, so something I love to hear from my. 

Karen Pizza 57:35
in 

Rich Bennett 57:35
Especially fuel, what you do, can you share 

Karen Pizza 57:39
Feel 

Rich Bennett 57:39
a feel 

Karen Pizza 57:40
good 

Rich Bennett 57:40
goods. 

Karen Pizza 57:40
to hear that somebody 

Rich Bennett 57:41
that you helped 

Karen Pizza 57:43
with this one. you know what, oh, major response. 

There's several come to mind but one literally this person just, 

Rich Bennett 57:53
Okay, 

instead 

Karen Pizza 58:00
of a hard time. I, one applicant, wrong, wrong feel care. That's back pace of my wife's own recruitment company a long time ago. 

One client. 

The nice thing is when I see people I don't remember their sessions. 

Rich Bennett 58:18
Right. 

Karen Pizza 58:19
I can remember like things that happen but not their names or who would happen to. 

When she came in, she could not literally stop crying. Cryed the entire time. Cryed when she called me. She cried when she came in. She cried when she was on the table. Could not stop crying. Her husband had passed away 18 months ago and she just couldn't, she just could not get control. And someone referred her to me and so she came in and we worked on her and we kind of cleared everything out. And she came for a couple of different sessions and I don't remember now if she was just here last week. And I don't remember she's got to come back again or not, but her last session, we figured out that her whole life she had held in her emotions. She grew up in a house where she wasn't allowed to have emotions, she wasn't allowed to feel things, you know, I'll give you a reason to cry, generation kind of thing. So her whole life, she's been stuffing and stuffing and stuffing all her emotions down. 

Rich Bennett 59:30
Oh, 

Karen Pizza 59:31
so what happens, and she's, what I think she's in her 70s, so what happened was her passes. She now has 

Rich Bennett 59:41
more. 

Karen Pizza 59:42
No, she has the quote approval to now let it out because of course you're going to cry when your husband dies, right? Of husband of 50 some years, that's acceptable. 

Rich Bennett 59:53
Yeah, 

Karen Pizza 59:54
So she, it's now acceptable for her to cry. 

Rich Bennett 59:57
she just can't. 

Karen Pizza 59:57
Well, what happened is once it's like that parable or that story about the little boy with his finger in the wall and the dyke, she pulled that cork and it wouldn't stop because 70 years worth of stuff 

Rich Bennett 1:00:10
was 

Karen Pizza 1:00:11
coming out. 

Rich Bennett 1:00:13
Wow. 

Karen Pizza 1:00:13
So after the first session, it was it was crazy because she stopped, she felt great after the first session. Right. 

Rich Bennett 1:00:19
Right. 

Karen Pizza 1:00:19
Because she could finally not cry. And it wasn't until this was either her second or her third session, I don't remember exactly what it was that we put the together and said, this is why this is why you had no control because you had all that you had to get rid of. So now that we've gotten rid of all of it and we've cleared all her trauma that she was had to suppress her whole life out, she can now live her best life at 76. Wow. 

Rich Bennett 1:00:49
Wow. 

Damn. So those of you listening, you know where to go to, no matter where you're at, crystal rakey with karen.com. Right? 

Karen Pizza 1:01:05
Yes, sir. 

Rich Bennett 1:01:05
I got it right. 

Karen Pizza 1:01:06
Yes, you did. 

Rich Bennett 1:01:07
Damn, I'm good. Thank you, dear. 

Karen Pizza 1:01:10
Thank you, hon. You too. 

Rich Bennett 1:01:13
Even though you give me a hard time. 

Karen Pizza 1:01:14
Hey. 

Rich Bennett 1:01:15
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